While I was searching for some CME resources for our Foundation Year doctors, I came accross an interesting research article "If you feed them, they will come: A prospective study of the effects of complimentary food on attendance and physician attitudes at medical grand rounds at an academic medical center" BMC Medical Education 2007, 7:22
It reports on the results of a prospective study of the effects of providing complimentary food on attendance at medical grand rounds (MGR) and a web-based survey that assessed the attitudes of attendees on the provision of complimentary food at MGRs.
The data suggest that faculty, fellows, and residents are more likely to attend MGR if free food is provided and less likely to attend if free food is not provided.
MGR is a central teaching activity in most departments of medicine at academic medical centers, but attendance by faculty, fellows, and residents appears to be decreasing. The study concludes that providing free food may be an effective strategy for increasing attendance at MGR.
What are your views and experience on the effects of free food on physicians' attendance to MGRs or other educational activities?
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