Annals of family medicine
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We wanted to explore test results management systems in family medicine offices and to delineate the components of quality in results management. ⋯ Understanding the components of safety awareness and technological adoption can assist family medicine offices in evaluating their own results management processes and help them design systems that can lead to higher quality care.
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Annals of family medicine · Jul 2009
Promise of professionalism: personal mission statements among a national cohort of medical students.
While historic medical oaths and numerous contemporary medical organizations offer guidelines for professionalism, the nature of the professional aspirations, commitments, and values of current medical students is not well known. We sought to provide a thematic catalogue of individual mission statements written by medical students nationally. ⋯ In their personal mission statements, this national cohort of medical students described an expanded view of physicianhood that includes such elements as presence, love, and awe. Medical school curricula may require adaptation to support the personal aspirations of those now entering the profession.