Improved Continuity of Care in a Community Teaching Hospital Model

Medical Trainee Continuity of Care Following Emergency Department Consultations in a Pediatric Hospital

“…8,10,11,[14][15][16] Pu et al 16 suggested that resident surgery clinics provide trainees with an invaluable patient-physician interaction. Resident clinics, however, are not without shortcomings.…”

“…[5][6][7] A number of studies from the surgical literature have also examined resident continuity of care. [8][9][10][11][12][13] Mittal et al 8 highlighted the importance of surgical residents participating in all phases of patient care to fully appreciate the impact of preoperative and intraoperative decisions on postoperative outcomes. Ledwidge et al 9 advocated measures to increase care continuity for surgical residents after their study noted that only 23% of patients had the same admitting resident from the emergency department for all phases of care.…”

Training in the private sector: what works and how do we increase opportunities?

“…Also where the trainee is involved in the delivery of perioperative care, continuity of care may even be enhanced. 17 This may be all the more true where the supervising surgeon(s) have many other professional responsibilities that take them away from their home base.…”

Role of private practice in general surgical training in Australia

“…14 The involvement of registrars has been linked with a higher quality of perioperative care and less complications. 15,16 This is potentially a result of supervising surgeons keeping abreast of the most recent evidence in health care, as well as the self-improvement of surgical practice with audits and multidisciplinary meetings that are typically performed in teaching institutions. This may also reflect the importance of continuity of care provided by registrars, when attending surgeons with multiple professional commitments and hospital appointments may sometimes have difficulty reviewing their patients face-to-face.…”