the author has not received any funding or benefits from industry or elsewhere to conduct this study .
 there remain tremendous opportunities to improve the stability and safety of american health care . within this context , 
 residents and residency programs face two essential questions : how to reduce the risk to patients resulting from resident inexperience , and how to change our programs to create the safer physician of the future ? the spread of side - by - side teaching and non - teaching services creates a natural setting to study these questions and improve both services . when asked the question , 
  would you admit your mother to the resident service ?  , many of us respond ,  it depends  . 
 we are focusing this column on helping programs answer this question definitively in the positive , share potential best practices , and underscore community hospital 's contribution to our understanding of patient safety . 
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