Twelve tips for implementing a patient safety curriculum in an undergraduate programme in medicine.

Gerry Armitage; Alison Cracknell; Kirsty Forrest; John Sandars

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Twelve tips for implementing a patient safety curriculum in an undergraduate programme in medicine.

August 3, 2011

Armitage G, Cracknell A, Forrest K, et al. Med Teach. 2011;33(7):535-40.

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This commentary describes an integrated approach to educating medical students about patient safety.

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