Study: 56% of Med Students Wouldn’t Speak Up About Possible Adverse Event

Fifty-six percent of medical students reported they would not speak up if they witnessed a possible adverse event, according to a study in the Academic Medicine.

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One hundred twenty-one fourth-year medical students at University of California, San Francisco, completed a modified version of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture in 2011 based on their third-year internal medicine or surgery clerkship experience.

Click here to read the full story on medical students’ perception of patient safety culture in Becker’s Hospital Review.

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