A Practical Minded Obsession: With the Possibility and Consequence of Failure
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https://doi.org/10.1532/hsf.1536Abstract
The ACGME (Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education) in its description of its ‘Outcome Project’ notes that all training programs “must require its resident to obtain competencies in six areas to the level expected of a new practitioner” and these six competencies include: patient care and medical knowledge, interpersonal skills and professionalism, and systems based practice and practice based learning.
Furthermore, most hospital credentialing systems require evidence of successful adoption and practice of these same six competencies.
In his article entitled ‘Creating the Educated Surgeon of the 21st Century’ Atul Gawande concludes “We are doctors, not technicians. We must educate ourselves accordingly.”Â
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