Entrustment Decision Making in Clinical Training

Olle Ten Cate1, Danielle Hart, Felix Ankel

  • 1O. ten Cate is professor of medical education and director, Center for Research and Development of Education, University Medical Center, Utrecht, the Netherlands. D. Hart is associate program director of emergency medicine and director of simulation, Hennepin County Medical Center, and assistant professor, University of Minnesota Medical School; both in Minneapolis, Minnesota. F. Ankel is executive director of health professional education, Healthpartners Institute for Education and Research, Bloomington, Minnesota, and professor of emergency medicine, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, Minnesota. J. Busari is program director, Department of Pediatrics, Atrium Medical Center, Heerlen, and associate professor of medical education, Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, Maastricht University, Maastricht, the Netherlands. R. Englander, at the time this article was written, was senior director of competency-based learning and assessment, Association of American Medical Colleges, Washington, DC. N. Glasgow is dean, Medical School, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia. E. Holmboe is senior vice president, Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education, Chicago, Illinois. W. Iobst is vice dean and vice president for academic and clinical affairs, Commonwealth Medical College, Scranton, Pennsylvania. E. Lovell is associate program director of emergency medicine, Advocate Christ Medical Center, Oak Lawn, Illinois, and clinical associate professor, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois. L.S. Snell is professor of medicine, Centre for Medical Education, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, and senior clinician educator, Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. C. Touchie is chief medical education advisor, Medical Council of Canada, and associate professor, University of Ottawa Faculty of Medicine, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. E. Van Melle is education researcher, Queen's Univ

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