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01-07-2014 | Editorial
Grading Residents’ Clinical Performance: Unique Opportunities and Challenges
Authors:
Joshua M. Liao, MD, Robert M. Wachter, MD
Published in:
Journal of General Internal Medicine
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Issue 7/2014
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Excerpt
The American healthcare system is being criticized for inconsistent quality, high rates of harm, and backbreaking costs. While tremendous attention has been placed on practicing physicians and healthcare organizations, there is increasing interest in how graduate medical education (GME) contributes to these problems.
1 Seen in this light, the “product” of GME should be physicians that produce high-value care, and today’s GME must adapt to meet this emerging objective. …