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Letter to Editor by Dattatreya Mukherjee, Intern, First Affiliated Hospital of Jinan University, Guangzhou, P.R China

of invited Talk for 23nd Intern. Conference SAFECOMP 2004, Potsdam, September 2004, LNCS 3219, Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg 2004, 1-2. Why Safety and Security should and will merge

BACKGROUND It is widely known that the opportunity for medical students to be observed and to receive feedback on their procedural skills performance is variable in the senior years. To address this problem, we provided our Pre-Intern (PrInt) students with "one-to-one" formative feedback on their ability to perform urethral catheterization (U/C) and hypothesized that their future practice of U/...