BACKGROUND: The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education and American Board of Internal Medicine have identified cost-awareness as an important component to residency training. Cost-awareness is generally not emphasized in current, traditional residency curricula despite the recognized importance of this topic. DESCRIPTION: Using a traditional Morning Report structure and actual charge data from our institution, the charges associated with trainee-directed workup of clinical cases are compared in a friendly competition among medical students, interns, residents, and faculty. EVALUATION: Anonymous, voluntary survey of all participants and comparison of expenditures by training level were used to assess this pilot program. The educational quality of the I-CARE was rated higher than the prior format of Morning Report by participants (10-point Likert scale; 8.57, 6.81 respectively; p < .001). Open-ended comments were overwhelmingly supportive from faculty and trainees. Cost was lower for attending physicians than for trainees ($1,027.45 vs. $4,264.00, p = .02) and diagnostic accuracy was also highest for attending physicians. CONCLUSIONS: The I-CARE is easy and quick to implement, and the preliminary results show a popular cost-awareness educational experience for internal medicine trainees. Further study is needed to determine change in practice habits.
BACKGROUND: The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education and American Board of Internal Medicine have identified cost-awareness as an important component to residency training. Cost-awareness is generally not emphasized in current, traditional residency curricula despite the recognized importance of this topic. DESCRIPTION: Using a traditional Morning Report structure and actual charge data from our institution, the charges associated with trainee-directed workup of clinical cases are compared in a friendly competition among medical students, interns, residents, and faculty. EVALUATION: Anonymous, voluntary survey of all participants and comparison of expenditures by training level were used to assess this pilot program. The educational quality of the I-CARE was rated higher than the prior format of Morning Report by participants (10-point Likert scale; 8.57, 6.81 respectively; p < .001). Open-ended comments were overwhelmingly supportive from faculty and trainees. Cost was lower for attending physicians than for trainees ($1,027.45 vs. $4,264.00, p = .02) and diagnostic accuracy was also highest for attending physicians. CONCLUSIONS: The I-CARE is easy and quick to implement, and the preliminary results show a popular cost-awareness educational experience for internal medicine trainees. Further study is needed to determine change in practice habits.
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