Using Team Census Caps to Optimize Education, Patient Care, and Wellness: A Survey of Internal Medicine Residency Program Directors

Purpose To discover whether internal medicine (IM) residency program directors use lower-than-required caps on general medicine wards, critical care units, and inpatient subspecialty wards; describe justifications for lower-than-required general medicine ward caps and strategies for when caps have been exceeded or the number of patients is a detriment to critical thinking or education; and assess whether caps were associated with program...