Resident Supervision and Patient Safety: Do Different Levels of Resident Supervision Affect the Rate of Morbidity and Mortality Cases?

Background: In our academic emergency department, our senior residents lead their own patient care team, known as the red team (RT). Attending physicians are responsible for managing their own team (AT) and precepting the senior resident's cases.

Objective: We hypothesized that the RT would have the same number of morbidity and mortality (M&M) cases and similar numbers of adverse outcomes as the AT.