Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine
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The effect of emergency medicine (EM) residents on the clinical efficiency of attending physicians is controversial. The authors hypothesized that implementing a new EM residency program would result in an increase in relative value units (RVUs) generated per hour by attending physicians and decrease staffing requirements. ⋯ The implementation of an EM residency program had a positive effect on the clinical efficiency of attending physicians and decreased staffing requirements.