In Eliminating "Waste" in Health Care, Victor Fuchs reflects on the difficulty of identifying/reducing waste in health care and offers suggestions on how physicians can practice cost-effective care. 

In Skills of Internal Medicine Residents in Disclosing Medical Errors: A Study Using Standardized Patients, the authors describe areas for improvement in residents' disclosure abilities, particularly regarding prevention of medical errors.

In Professionalism Beyond Medical School: An Educational Continuum?, The authors discuss the need for continuous medical education in professionalism.

In Approaches to professional Behaviour Assessment: Tools in the Professionalism Toolbox, the authors describe the importance of qualitative comments when assessing professional behavior. The Mini-CEX (whose development was funded by the ABIM Foundation), is one of the assessment tools discussed.

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