Richard Reznick: leading innovator of surgical education.

摘要

"The debate over checklists in medicine is over", Richard Reznick, a significant contributor to a widely used surgical safety checklist, argues. But the power of checklists to reduce errors by forging better medical communication still remains underestimated, he thinks. One reason may be that "checklists serve as a challenge to the traditional culture among surgeons", says Reznick, who served as an investigator for WHO's Safe Surgery Saves Lives Study Group. Trained first as a colorectal surgeon and then as a medical educator, Reznick, who is Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada, is focused on techniques needed to modernise surgical training.