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There a black joke amongst doctors in the UK where all the junior doctors start in the same week each year the mortality rates go up :-)

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Indeed, and it's not even a joke, but a real phenomenon.

Sources :

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2896592/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21747093

Then ... that means the supervision of residents is not working. That basically means, it's useless. (Since it'd make sense to apply the maximum amount of supervision when a resident is new and as the resident gains trust, decrease it.)

Or of course it means, that attending doctors do a constant amount of (insufficient) supervision, or they ramp up supervision after someone screws up... :|

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