Improving Clinical Learning Environments for Tomorrow's Physicians

On the basis of site visits that it has conducted for its Clinical Learning Environment Review program, the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education reports finding a generalized lack of resident engagement in systems-based practice.Approximately 2 months ago, I had a patient where I accidently administered a wrong dose of fentanyl during a procedure. The patient developed severe hypotension, and the procedure had to be temporarily halted until we could get her blood pressure back up. My attending was close by. He responded quickly. Ultimately, no harm was done.The reason I believe this happened is that during a procedure I'm sometimes required to administer fentanyl and must dilute it during the procedure. There are two dilutions, either to directly administer by syringe, or for use as an intravenous drip. We do this ...