Editor's Picks The New York University (NYU) School of Medicine is making strides to lower the immense burden of medical school debt on future physicians. It has decided to offer free tuition to all of its current and future students, without considering need or merit.  
The clinical competency committee (CCC) is responsible for ensuring that medical educators are accountable to the public for graduating competent physicians. Competent physicians will provide safe, high-quality healthcare to patients and will maintain the standards of the healthcare system within which they practice Two years ago, The Joint Commission released a "Quick Safety" report on unintended retained foreign objects. That report was meant to build upon the information in The Joint Commission’s 2013 Sentinel Event Alert 51, which also addressed RSIs. Despite that, RSIs still topped The Joint Commission’s 2017 sentinel event statistics. Patients continue to be stitched closed with surgical sponges, gloves, needles, electrodes, scalpels, wires, tweezers, forceps, scopes, masks, tubes, and scissors left inside them. So what can the hundreds of surgery programs training the next generation of surgeons do to help reduce the incidences of RSIs?
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