How to Build a Patient Safety Workshop or Curriculum

Course Overview

Student and residency training programs are tasked with instilling patient safety principles in our trainees including the importance of error reporting, analysis of patient safety events, and creating solutions in the spirit of just culture. Can you drive these points home by going through a PowerPoint? We say no! We will show you how to involve your trainees in real or simulated investigations into medical error, and model rather than teach the behaviors and ethics you wish to convey. In this spirit, didactics in this workshop will be held to a minimum and instead participants will engage in abbreviated versions of the activities that we propose you use with your trainees. Workshop participants will share personal experiences with medical error, review a simulated case of a medical error, report this error via a simulated hospital error reporting system, interview providers involved in the error, and discuss solutions to future errors in the spirit of just culture.

Learning Objectives

Learn how to normalize the occurrence of errors in the medical workplace and the reporting of these errors.
Participate in a simulated investigation into a medical error and learn how to create simulations/opportunities for safety event analysis investigation for trainees.
Understand and convey the principles of just culture when discussing solutions to avoid future medical errors.

Speakers

Michael Krug ,MD
University of Washington (Boise)

Joel Boggan, MD
Duke University School of Medicine

Peter Caldwell, MD
Tulane University School of Medicine

Meredith M. Barr, MD
Tulane University School of Medicine