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Graduate Medical Education and Patient Safety

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Although it is generally accepted that supervision during residency training is pivotal to the professional development of resident physicians and ensures patient safety, little work has been done to describe the nature and extent of the supervision provided and to provide recommendations for effective supervisory strategies. The implications of residency supervision extend beyond the clinical arena into such areas as financial reimbursement and malpractice liability. Questions remain regarding the formality of the attending–resident supervision relationship, namely the identification of those factors which encourage, and discourage, residents from seeking attending physician input into clinical decisions (100).

“The study of error is not only in the highest degree prophylactic, but it serves as a stimulating introduction to the study of truth.”

Walter Lippmann

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    Jeanne M. Farnan M.D., M.H.P.E. & Vineet M. Arora M.D., M.A.P.P.

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Farnan, J.M., Arora, V.M. (2014). Graduate Medical Education and Patient Safety. In: Agrawal, A. (eds) Patient Safety. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7419-7_4

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