Graduate Medical Education as the Driver for Quality Improvement and Patient Safety: A National Initiative of Independent Academic Medical Centers

published online 28 September 2009.

Key Words: graduate medical education, quality-improvement, patient safety

Competency: Systems Based Practice, Practice Based Learning and Improvement

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⁎ Department of Surgery, Good Samaritan Hospital, Cincinnati, Ohio

† The Alliance of Independent Academic Medical Centers, Chicago, Illinois

‡ The E. Kenneth Hatton, MD, Institute for Research and Education, Cincinnati, Ohio

Correspondence: Inquiries to Richard Welling, MD, Amy Engel Hatton Research Institute, Good Samaritan Hospital, 375 Dixmyth Avenue, Cincinnati, OH 45220; fax: (513) 487-4643

PII: S1931-7204(09)00107-X

doi:10.1016/j.jsurg.2009.07.002

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