Medical education in critical care.
Patient safety is garnering increasing attention in our health care system, and with a possible trend toward increasing patient adverse events in academic hospitals (CMAJ. 2004;170:1678-86), medical education needs to reevaluate resident training. Within critical care, teaching of trainees in a manner that minimizes medical errors and ensures competency when managing critically ill patients is now a priority. This article addresses 4 areas that are receiving increasing attention in medical education and are relevant to training in the critical care environment: evidence-based medicine, communication, evaluation, and simulation.
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Interdepartmental Division of Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Canada, ON, Canada, M5B 1W8. n.wong@utoronto.ca
D002983:Clinical Competence; D003142:Communication; D003422:Critical Care; D004521:Educational Measurement; D019317:Evidence-Based Medicine / Q000193:education; D006785:Hospitals, University / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D007396:Internship and Residency / Q000458:organization & administration*; D019300:Medical Errors; D016544:Patient Simulation