Changing and sustaining medical students' knowledge, skills, and attitudes about patient safety and medical fallibility

Academic Medicine

Volumn 81, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 94-101

  Madigosky, Wendy S ^a,e   Headrick, Linda A ^b   Nelson, Kathryn ^c   Cox, Karen R ^c   Anderson, Timothy ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b University of Missouri   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^d VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; CURRICULUM; EXPERIENCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KNOWLEDGE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL ERROR; MEDICAL STUDENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PATIENT SAFETY; PEER GROUP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RESIDENT; SKILL; STUDENT ATTITUDE; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CLINICAL TRIAL; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; SAFETY; UNITED STATES;

CURRICULUM; EDUCATION, MEDICAL; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MEDICAL ERRORS; MISSOURI; PROGRAM EVALUATION; SAFETY MANAGEMENT;

EID: 33644877480     PISSN: 10402446     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00001888-200601000-00022     Document Type: Article

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