Teaching quality improvement: the devil is in the details.

摘要

Medicine's enormous and highly specialized body of knowledge inarguably makes it a learned profession, but delivering care is performance, not scholarship. In its most basic form, the delivery of science-based care consists of applying generalizable scientific knowledge to the problems of particular patients who are ill, with the result that those patients are better off. Learning to deliver care therefore means going beyond conceptual knowledge ("knowing that") to the acquisition of working knowledge ("knowing how").