Publications by authors named "Sean Gaffney"

Background: Despite the identification of transfer of patient responsibility as a Core Entrustable Professional Activity for Entering Residency, rigorous methods to evaluate incoming residents' ability to give a verbal handoff of multiple patients are lacking.

Aim: Our purpose was to implement a multi-patient, simulation-based curriculum to assess verbal handoff performance.

Setting: Graduate Medical Education (GME) orientation at an urban, academic medical center.

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Background: Patient safety curricula in undergraduate medical education (UME) are often didactic format with little focus on skills training. Despite recent focus on safety, practical training in residency education is also lacking. Assessments of safety skills in UME and graduate medical education (GME) are generally knowledge, and not application-focused.

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