Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges
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Multicenter Study
Patient safety education at U.S. and Canadian medical schools: results from the 2006 Clerkship Directors in Internal Medicine survey.
To describe current patient safety curricula at U.S. and Canadian medical schools and identify factors associated with adoption of these programs. ⋯ Despite calls from regulatory, medical, and educational organizations to increase patient safety training of medical students, internal medicine clerkship directors report that few schools in the United States and Canada have implemented specific patient safety curricula. Most existing patient safety curricula use lecture and small-group discussion as preferred methods of instruction.