Use of graded responsibility and common entrustment considerations among United States emergency medicine residency programs

We sought to determine how EM (emergency medicine) residency programs apply graded responsibility across a variety of activities and to identify which considerations are important in affording additional responsibilities to trainees. We conducted a cross-sectional study of EM residency programs using a 23-question survey that was distributed by email to 162 ACGME-accredited EM program directors. The survey was generated in Qualtrics (Provo, UT, USA) and distributed to a total of 162 ACGME-accredited EM residency programs between April 2018 and October 2018.