Surgery
Volume 151, Issue 2 , Pages 139-145 , February 2012

Error training: Missing link in surgical education

  • Debra A. DaRosa, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Debra A. DaRosa, PhD, Department of Surgery, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, 251 E. Huron, Galter 3-150, Chicago, IL 60611.
    • ,
  • Carla M. Pugh, MD, PhD

,Accepted 4 August 2011.

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 Supported by the US Army Medical Research and Material Command (grant W81XWH0710190).

PII: S0039-6060(11)00474-0

doi: 10.1016/j.surg.2011.08.008

Surgery
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