A human factors curriculum for surgical clerkship students

Archives of Surgery

Volumn 145, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1151-1157

  Cahan, Mitchell A ^a   Larkin, Anne C ^a   Starr, Susan ^a   Wellman, Scott ^a   Haley, Heather Lyn ^a   Sullivan, Kate ^a   Shah, Shimul ^a   Hirsh, Michael ^a   Litwin, Demetrius ^a   Quirk, Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAREER; COMMUNICATION SKILL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CURRICULUM; EMPATHY; HUMAN; HUMAN FACTORS RESEARCH; MEDICAL SCHOOL; MEDICAL STUDENT; NURSE; PATIENT SAFETY; PILOT STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; SCORING SYSTEM; SELF REPORT; SURGEON; SURGICAL TRAINING; TEAMWORK; TIME MANAGEMENT; UNITED STATES; VIDEORECORDING;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CLINICAL CLERKSHIP; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COMMUNICATION; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; CURRICULUM; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, UNDERGRADUATE; EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT; EMPATHY; FEMALE; GENERAL SURGERY; HUMANS; INTERPROFESSIONAL RELATIONS; INTERVENTION STUDIES; MALE; ODDS RATIO; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; PILOT PROJECTS; PROFESSIONAL-PATIENT RELATIONS; STUDENTS, MEDICAL;

EID: 78650797712     PISSN: 00040010     EISSN: 15383644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archsurg.2010.252     Document Type: Article

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