Learning from the early careers of master clinicians

Vivek K Murthy; Christy Boscardin; Ethan Cumbler; Christopher Irobunda; Mark A McQuillan; Linda G Phillips; Manish Suneja; Scott M Wright; Gurpreet Dhaliwal

doi:10.1111/jep.13906

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Learning from the early careers of master clinicians

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Learning from the early careers of master clinicians

Vivek K Murthy, Christy Boscardin, Ethan Cumbler, Christopher Irobunda, Mark A McQuillan, Linda G Phillips, Manish Suneja, Scott M Wright and Gurpreet Dhaliwal

Journal of evaluation in clinical practice, Vol.30(1), pp.129-136

02/2024

DOI: 10.1111/jep.13906

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BACKGROUNDMaster clinicians are recognized as multidimensional experts in clinical medicine. Studying their formative clinical activities could generate insights to guide medical trainees and early career clinicians. OBJECTIVESTo investigate which early career activities were adopted more commonly by master clinicians than their matched peers and to characterize master clinicians' early career activities across institutions and specialties. SUBJECTS AND METHODSWe surveyed master clinicians at seven medical centres about their early career activities. For master clinicians in the Department of Medicine (DOM), we also surveyed matched internist peers. RESULTSOf 150 master clinician respondents, 65% were internists (DOM); 35% practiced in other specialties. Compared to their internist peers, there was a trend toward internist master clinicians reading more about their patients' conditions (6.0 vs. 4.8 h per week), reading more case reports (4.0 vs. 2.1 per month), engaging in more frequent teaching duties and devoting less time to research. CONCLUSIONSThe early career activities identified in this study can be adopted by clinicians pursuing clinical excellence and promoted by training programs that seek to foster life-long learning.

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Title: Subtitle: Learning from the early careers of master clinicians
Creators: Vivek K Murthy
Christy Boscardin - University of California, San Francisco
Ethan Cumbler - University of Colorado Hospital
Christopher Irobunda - Columbia University Irving Medical Center
Mark A McQuillan - Michigan Medicine
Linda G Phillips - The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston
Manish Suneja - University of Iowa
Scott M Wright - Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center
Gurpreet Dhaliwal - University of California, San Francisco
Resource Type: Journal article
Publication Details: Journal of evaluation in clinical practice, Vol.30(1), pp.129-136
DOI: 10.1111/jep.13906
eISSN: 1365-2753
Language: English
Electronic publication date: 08/09/2023
Date published: 02/2024
Academic Unit: Nephrology; Internal Medicine
Record Identifier: 9984453201202771

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