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New Internal Medicine Residency Program At A Community Hospital Improves Mortality Without Increasing The Cost Or Length Of Stay: A Two-Year Follow Up., Javad Savoj, Christine Mikhail, Rajesh Gulati, Napatkamon Ayutyanont, Alina Popa Mar 2019

New Internal Medicine Residency Program At A Community Hospital Improves Mortality Without Increasing The Cost Or Length Of Stay: A Two-Year Follow Up., Javad Savoj, Christine Mikhail, Rajesh Gulati, Napatkamon Ayutyanont, Alina Popa

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Opening new residency programs in community hospitals is one strategy to address to address physician shortage. Previous reports have shown better mortality outcomes in university based hospitals. However, less is known about teaching community hospitals. Disrupting well-established workflows in community hospitals is feared to cause an increased cost and possibly a slide in quality of care. Our aim was to assess the impact of starting a new Internal Medicine residency program in a Graduate Medical Education (GME) naive community hospital.