Editor's Picks Since 2007, RPA has conducted a survey of residency coordinators nationwide and provided them with data to see how their experiences stack up against each other. The most common job title among survey takers in recent years is residency program coordinator and the 2019 results were no different, garnering 30% of responses.
 In a recent survey of residents and fellows, 51% reported not establishing care with a primary care physician (PCP). Seventy-seven percent reported delaying care for a medication problem. Ninety percent cited the inability to leave work during business hours as the most important barrier to seeking care.
The landmark report To Err Is Human: Building a Safer Health System was released in November 2009. In it, the authors claimed that to prevent countless instances of medical errors and harm, providers needed to stop placing blame on individuals and instead start looking at the systems those individuals worked in. This was completely at odds with the prevailing culture in healthcare at the time, and its release launched the patient safety movement as we now know it.
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