How to say “I don’t know”: development and evaluation of workshops for medical students and surgical residents on communicating uncertainty using the ADAPT framework

Margaret Duval1, Monica Zewdie2, Muneera R. Kapadia3, Chang Liu4, Denise Mohess5, Sharon L. Bachman4, Jonathan Dort4, Anna B. Newcomb6
1George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Washington, USA
2University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, USA
3Department of Colorectal Surgery, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, USA
4Department of Surgery, Inova Fairfax Medical Campus, Fairfax, USA
5Department of Medicine, Inova Fairfax Medical Campus, Fairfax, USA
6Division of Trauma, Department of Surgery, Inova Fairfax Medical Campus, Falls Church, USA

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