Perspective: beyond counting hours: the importance of supervision, professionalism, transitions of care, and workload in residency training.

Daniel Schumacher; Sara R Slovin; Meredith P Riebschleger; Robert Englander; Patricia J. Hicks; Carol Carraccio

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Perspective: beyond counting hours: the importance of supervision, professionalism, transitions of care, and workload in residency training.

July 18, 2012

Schumacher D, Slovin SR, Riebschleger MP, et al. Academic Medicine. 2012;87(7).

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This commentary explains how focusing on the quality of resident duty hours, in addition to the quantity, can increase the potential of medical education to enhance patient care and reduce errors.

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