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Procedural Skills Training During Emergency Medicine Residency: Are We Teaching the Right Things?
Western Journal of Emergency Medicine, 09/08/09

Druck J et al. – Practicing emergency physicians may be uniquely qualified to identify areas of under– and over–preparation during residency training. There were significant discrepancies between importance in practice and preparation during residency for eight of 12 procedures. There was a strong correlation between confidence and preparation during residency for almost all procedural skills, re–enforcing the tenet that residency training is the primary locus of instruction for clinical procedures.

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