Patient handoffs in teaching hospitals

摘要

When patients are admitted to a teaching hospital, they will most likely be under the care of a team of many doctors. .. Resident physicians (residents) are physicians still in training who work under the supervision of attending physicians (attendings). Sometimes medical students will also be on the team. .. Residents work in many different types of hospital wards during their training and can switch wards every 2 to 4 weeks. They also work in shifts and have limits on the number of hours they can stay in the hospital. Therefore, each hospital ward has a constant flow of many different residents. At the end of the day, residents working the daytime shift will usually hand over the care of their patients to residents working the nighttime shift.