Improving resident education and patient safety: a method to balance initial caseloads at academic year-end transfer.

John Q Young; Brian Niehaus; Sandra C Lieu; Patricia S O'Sullivan

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Improving resident education and patient safety: a method to balance initial caseloads at academic year-end transfer.

September 8, 2010

Young JQ, Niehaus B, Lieu SC, et al. Acad Med. 2010;85(9):1418-24.

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This study describes a process to better manage transitions that occur when panels of patients are transferred from an outgoing trainee to an incoming one each summer.

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