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Resident Training and the Medical Emergency Team

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The need to train and develop house staff for independent practice may conflict with the needs of patients who require rapid stabilization. Finding a healthy balance between the 2, where the patient receives the best care possible, is a challenge to those in academic medicine. Increasingly, data suggests that the traditional models of resident training have in part failed to place the patient first. The contributors to this text believe that the implementation of Medical Emergency Teams will offset some of these shortcomings in care and improve the public accountability of medical education. The MET can also offer opportunities for the development of competencies in patient care for both trainees and established physicians. Likewise, the MET can provide an educational structure from which house staff can learn a great deal more about interdisciplinary teamwork, patient safety, and the responsiveness of health care to patient needs.

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  1. Department of Anesthesia, Palo Alto Veteran Affairs Medical Center, Palo Alto, CA, 95304, USA

    Geoffrey K. Lighthall M.D., Ph.D.

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  1. University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, 15213-3404, USA

    Michael A. DeVita M.D. (Associate Professor of Critical Care Medicine and Internal Medicine and Associate Medical Director) (Associate Professor of Critical Care Medicine and Internal Medicine and Associate Medical Director)

  2. UPMC Presbyterian Hospital, Pittsburgh, PA, 15213-3404, USA

    Michael A. DeVita M.D. (Associate Professor of Critical Care Medicine and Internal Medicine and Associate Medical Director) (Associate Professor of Critical Care Medicine and Internal Medicine and Associate Medical Director)

  3. The Simpson Centre for Health Services Research, Liverpool Hospital, Liverpool, New South Wales, 1871, Australia

    Kenneth Hillman M.D. (Co-Director of Critical Care) (Co-Director of Critical Care)

  4. Austin Hospital, Heidelberg, Victoria, 3084, Australia

    Rinaldo Bellomo M.D. (Director of Intensive Care Research) (Director of Intensive Care Research)

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Lighthall, G.K. (2006). Resident Training and the Medical Emergency Team. In: DeVita, M.A., Hillman, K., Bellomo, R. (eds) Medical Emergency Teams. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-27921-0_20

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