Patient safety education

and health care

Why ?

Harm by
Adverse
health Safer care
event
care

PATIENT SAFETY AS SCIENCE

Patient safety education

Promote patient safety

Enhance patient safety world

wide

Prepare student for safe

practice
Recomendation

 the AAMC Medical Schools Objective Project report recommends that

medical schools deliver patient safety education to undergraduates
 the ACGME,3 which lists common competencies in practice-based
learning and systems-based practice.
Progression of competencies

Doing
Knowing
how
Knowing
what
Topics to learns

 General overview of patient safety

 Communication and teamwork
 System based
 Quality improvement
 Medication safety
 Incident reporting
WHO PATIENT SAFETY CURICULUM GUIDE

Universal
principles

Globalized health
care
WHO CURICULUM
What is patient safety ?

What is human factors and why is it important to patient safety?

Understanding systems and the impact of complexity on

patient care

Being an effective team player

Understanding and learning from errors

Understanding and managing clinical risk

Introduction to quality improvement methods

Engaging with patients and carers

Minimizing infection through improved infection control

Patient safety and invasive procedures

Improving medication safety

In terms of learner factors, many studies
identified the need to ensure personal/clinical
relevance of the material to learners, with
opportunities to apply the learning in order to
enhance engagement.
 Quality
Patient
Safer care health
safety
care
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