Michael Chiang
WASHINGTON — The amount of time an attending ophthalmologist spends in a room with a patient is longer when a trainee is present, even when the trainee does not interact with the patient, according to a speaker here.
On average, an attending physician spends 11.5 minutes of face-to-face time in a room with a patient, Michael F. Chiang, MD, told colleagues at the American Association for Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus meeting.
Twenty-nine percent of that time is spent using the electronic health record, 39% is spent examining the (Read more...)
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