Skip to main content
Key Specialties
Cardiology Diabetology Endocrinology Gastroenterology Geriatrics and Gerontology Gynecology and Obstetrics Hematology Infectious Disease Internal Medicine Nephrology Neurology Oncology Pediatrics Respiratory Medicine Rheumatology Surgery
Congress Coverage
2024 ACC Congress 2023 ESMO Congress 2023 EASD Congress 2023 ERS Congress 2023 ESC Congress
Clinical Collections
Advances in Alzheimer’s

Keynote webinar | Spotlight on medication adherence

LIVE: Thursday 27th June 2024, 18:00-19:30 (CEST)
Join our expert panel to discover why you need to understand the drivers of non-adherence in your patients, and how you can optimize medication adherence in your clinics to drastically improve patient outcomes.
ADVANCED SEARCH
Log in
Top
Journal of General Internal Medicine
Published in: Journal of General Internal Medicine 2/2021

01-02-2021 | Concise Research Report

The Effects of Student Demographic Characteristics in a Primary Care Encounter: a Randomized Experiment

Authors: Alexander Chaitoff, MD, MPH, Josephine Volovetz, MD, MS, Blair Mitchell-Handley, MD, Kendalle Cobb, MD

Published in: Journal of General Internal Medicine | Issue 2/2021

Login to get access

Excerpt

In academic and community settings, medical students regularly see multiple patients per day on primary care clerkships.1 Physician demographic features have been shown to influence perceptions of care,2, 3 but it is unclear if these findings extend to medical students. Additionally, there are many reports from the medical student perspective about discrimination by patients,4 but few probes of the public itself for underlying biases against groups of medical students. …
Literature
1.
Masters PA, Nester C. A Study of Primary Care Teaching Comparing Academic and Community-Based Settings. J Gen Intern Med. 2001;16(1):9–13.CrossRef
2.
3.
Roter DL, Hall JA. Why physician gender matters in shaping the physician-patient relationship. J Women’s Heal. 1998;7(9):1093–1097.CrossRef
4.
Wheeler M, de Bourmont S, Paul-Emile K, et al. Physician and Trainee Experiences With Patient Bias. JAMA Intern Med. 2019.
5.
Chaitoff A, Niforatos J, Vega J. Exploring the effects of medical trainee naming: a randomized experiment. Perspect Med Educ. 2016;5(2):114–121.CrossRef
6.
Niforatos JD, Chaitoff A, Mercer MB, Yu P-C, Rose SL. Association Between Public Trust and Provider Specialty Among Physicians With Financial Conflicts of Interest. In: Mayo Clinic Proceedings. Vol 94. Elsevier; 2019:2467–2475.
Metadata
Title
The Effects of Student Demographic Characteristics in a Primary Care Encounter: a Randomized Experiment
Authors
Alexander Chaitoff, MD, MPH
Josephine Volovetz, MD, MS
Blair Mitchell-Handley, MD
Kendalle Cobb, MD
Publication date
01-02-2021
Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Published in
Journal of General Internal Medicine / Issue 2/2021
Print ISSN: 0884-8734
Electronic ISSN: 1525-1497
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11606-020-05681-w

Other articles of this Issue 2/2021

Journal of General Internal Medicine 2/2021 Go to the issue

Perspective

Designed to Fail? the Future of Primary Care

Original Research

Effects of Leader Tactics on the Creativity, Implementation, and Evolution of Ideas to Improve Healthcare Delivery

Viewpoint

Biomedical Informatics and Health Information Technology: a Critical, Pragmatic Collaboration for Clinical Transformation

Letter to the Editor

RE: Patient-Reported Quality of Hospital Discharge Transitions

Perspective

Using Implementation Science-Guided Pilot Studies to Assess and Improve the Informativeness of Clinical Trials

Original Research

Stability of Drinking Reductions and Long-term Functioning Among Patients with Alcohol Use Disorder
Live Webinar | 27-06-2024 | 18:00 (CEST)

Keynote webinar | Spotlight on medication adherence

Reserve your place

Live: Thursday 27th June 2024, 18:00-19:30 (CEST)

WHO estimates that half of all patients worldwide are non-adherent to their prescribed medication. The consequences of poor adherence can be catastrophic, on both the individual and population level.

Join our expert panel to discover why you need to understand the drivers of non-adherence in your patients, and how you can optimize medication adherence in your clinics to drastically improve patient outcomes.

Prof. Kevin Dolgin
Prof. Florian Limbourg
Prof. Anoop Chauhan
Developed by: Springer Medicine
Obesity Clinical Trial Summary

At a glance: The STEP trials

Read more

A round-up of the STEP phase 3 clinical trials evaluating semaglutide for weight loss in people with overweight or obesity.

Developed by: Springer Medicine

Highlights from the ACC 2024 Congress

Year in Review: Pediatric cardiology

Pediatric Cardiology Video

Watch Dr. Anne Marie Valente present the last year's highlights in pediatric and congenital heart disease in the official ACC.24 Year in Review session.

Year in Review: Pulmonary vascular disease

Cardiopulmonary Comorbidity Video

The last year's highlights in pulmonary vascular disease are presented by Dr. Jane Leopold in this official video from ACC.24.

Year in Review: Valvular heart disease

Valvular Heart Disease Video

Watch Prof. William Zoghbi present the last year's highlights in valvular heart disease from the official ACC.24 Year in Review session.

Year in Review: Heart failure and cardiomyopathies

Heart Failure Video

Watch this official video from ACC.24. Dr. Biykem Bozkurt discusses last year's major advances in heart failure and cardiomyopathies.

ACC 2024 Congress Coverage

Year in Review: Heart failure and cardiomyopathies

Heart Failure Video

Watch this official video from ACC.24. Dr. Biykem Bozkurt discusses last year's major advances in heart failure and cardiomyopathies.

Watch now

Semaglutide benefits people with type 2 diabetes and obesity-related heart failure

16-04-2024 Type 2 Diabetes News

Incentivised to exercise

11-04-2024 Lifestyle Modifications News

New intervention for STEMI-related cardiogenic shock

10-04-2024 Myocardial Infarction News

» View more highlights on the ACC 2024 congress hub page

Image Credits