Context There have been significant advances in competency‐based medical education
(CBME) within health professions education. While most of the efforts have focused on …

Objectives “Failure to rescue”(FTR) is the failure to prevent a death resulting from a
complication of medical care or from a complication of underlying illness or surgery. There is …

Medical educators need to understand and conduct medical education research in order to
make informed decisions based on the best evidence, rather than rely on their own hunches …

EDUCATING PHYSICIANS The current blueprint for medical education in North America
was drawn up in 1910 by Abraham Flexner in his report Medical Education in the United …

Clinical supervision requires that supervisors make decisions about how much
independence to allow their trainees for patient care tasks. The simultaneous goals of …

Background The relationship between the ability to recognize and respond to patient
deterioration (escalate care) and its role in preventing failure to rescue (FTR; mortality after a …

Purpose To systematically review published quality improvement (QI) and patient safety (PS)
curricula for medical students and/or residents to (1) determine educational content and …

Self-appraisal has repeatedly been shown to be inadequate as a mechanism for
performance improvement. This has placed greater emphasis on understanding the …

Purpose Patient-care responsibilities stimulate trainee learning but training may
compromise patient safety. The authors investigated factors guiding clinical supervisors' …

This chapter promotes alignment of worldview, theoretical frameworks and research
approaches in relation to constructivism and its philosophical underpinnings. It presents an …