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First-Year Medical Residents Spend Little Time on Patient Care

Lisa Rapaport  |  

(Reuters Health)—Over a typical 24-hour shift, first year residents training in internal medicine spend just three hours on direct patient care and only 1.8 hours on education, a U.S. study suggests. Most of their time—an average of 15.9 hours out of every 24-hour shift—is consumed instead by “indirect patient care,” primarily involving interactions with medical…

Build Your Practice with Patient-Centered Strategies

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Ever wonder why some rheumatologists are more successful at starting or building a private practice than their peers? More than likely, their success is due in part to the patient-centered strategies embedded in their practices’ cultures. Although the ACR predicts a nationwide shortage of 2,500 rheumatologists within the next decade, many patients can still pick…

How to Engage Young Adult Patients

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Gaps in healthcare are common between the ages of 17 and 21. But simple collaborations between adult and pediatric rheumatologists can go a long way to help young adults stay engaged in their rheumatology care…

Help Patients Live Their Best Lives

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September is national Rheumatic Disease Awareness Month. Encourage your patients to take the ACR’s pledge to live well with rheumatic disease, and help your community understand how these diseases affect your patients…