Medical education
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Multicenter Study
Learning not to take it seriously: junior doctors' accounts of error.
We aimed to investigate experiences of, and responses to, medical error amongst junior doctors and to examine the challenges junior doctors face and the support they receive. ⋯ Junior doctors need help to reflect on their experiences and to recognise where they may have made mistakes, particularly in the contexts of shift-work and fragmented teams. Formal reporting systems alone will not facilitate learning from error. Juniors require individual clinical supervision from seniors with appropriate training. Such expertise may benefit the whole team and the training environment.