Clinical teaching and clinical outcomes

The focus of this thesis is to test for a difference in clinical outcome for patients treated by high rated clinician teachers compared to those patients treated by low rated clinician teachers. The hypothesis is that patients cared for by better clinician teachers have better clinical outcomes.;We performed a retrospective cross sectional study to explore the association between Teaching Effectiveness Scores of 40 clinician teachers at the University of Toronto and the clinical outcomes of 4377 of their patients over a 3 year period.;The main analysis compared mean hospital length of stay for patients cared for by physicians above and below the mean Teaching Effectiveness Score.;We looked at four of the most common admission diagnoses to a General Internal Medicine ward and our overall findings show no major difference in outcomes. The conclusion is that there is no large correlation between Teaching Effectiveness Scores and clinical outcomes.