When Do Supervising Physicians Decide to Entrust Residents With Unsupervised Tasks?
Academic MedicinePublished 26 August 2010
Anneke Sterkenburg, Paul Barach, Cor J. Kalkman, Mathieu J. M. Gielen, Olle ten Cate
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Investigating factors guiding clinical supervisors' decisions to trust residents with critical patient-care tasks found residents' and attendings' opinions and impressions differ regarding what is expected from residents, what residents actually do, and what residents think they can do safely.
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Residents' and attendings' opinions and impressions differ regarding what is expected from residents, what residents actually do, and what residents think they can do safely. The authors list factors affecting why and when supervisors trust residents to proceed without supervision. Future studies should address drivers behind entrustment decisions, correlations with patient outcomes, and tools that enable faculty to justify their entrustment decisions.
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