Are today's surgical residency graduates less competent or just more cautious?

JAMA Surgery

Volumn 149, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 411-412

  Snyder, Rebecca A ^a   Terhune, Kyla P ^a   Williams, D Brandon ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREAST SURGERY; COLORECTAL SURGERY; EDUCATION PROGRAM; ENDOCRINE SURGERY; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; GENERAL SURGERY; HERNIA; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; KNOWLEDGE BASE; LAPAROSCOPY; MALPRACTICE; MORBIDITY; OPERATION DURATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRIVATE PRACTICE; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; RESIDENCY EDUCATION; RESIDENT; SHORT SURVEY; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL RISK; SURGICAL TRAINING;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CURRICULUM; GENERAL SURGERY; HUMANS; INTERNSHIP AND RESIDENCY; MALPRACTICE; MEDICAL ERRORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84901358494     PISSN: 21686254     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jamasurg.2013.3784     Document Type: Short Survey

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