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Table 3 Student preference for patient safety education timing

From: Patient safety and quality improvement education: a cross-sectional study of medical students’ preferences and attitudes

Teaching venue

All students N = 358

Pre-clinical N = 158

Clinical N = 200

Pre-clinical lectures

12.0%

16.5%

8.5%

Community week*

6.4%

8.9%

4.5%

Medical humanities course

2.2

1.9%

2.5%

Clinical skill course

26.8

37.3%

18.5%

Clinical Rotations

46.9

27.9%

62%

Other

5.6

7.6%

4.0%

  1. *Community week is an experience where 1st and 2nd year students go and spend a total of 5 weeks working one-on-one with a primary care preceptor somewhere in North Carolina.