Background: Substantial efforts are focused on the high prevalence of patient harm due to
medical errors and the mechanisms to prevent them. The potential role of the medical …

Objective: To change the culture of healthcare organisations and improve patient safety,
new professionals need to be taught about adverse events and how to trap and mitigate …

Background: Identifying informed and interested staff to teach patient safety can be difficult.
We report our experiences with a lecture-based program on patient safety delivered by …

Objectives In an effort to improve patient safety attitudes and skills among third-year medical
students, two patient safety training sessions were added to their curriculum, complementing …

Context To improve patient safety, medical students should be taught about human error
and the factors influencing adverse events. The optimal evaluation of new curricula for …

Article-at-a-Glance Background A lack of formal patient safety curricula has contributed to
the suboptimal training of medical students and housestaff. Attitudes of physician trainees …

Objective Patient safety has emerged as a distinct health care discipline and an
undergraduate programme on patient safety is being introduced at the authors' institution …

Patient safety is a major priority for health services. It is a multi-disciplinary problem and
requires a multi-disciplinary solution; any education should therefore be a multi-disciplinary …

Background The urgent need for patient safety education for healthcare students has been
recognised by many accreditation bodies, but to date there has been sporadic attention to …

Background The urgent need for patient safety education for healthcare students has been
recognised by many accreditation bodies, but to date there has been sporadic attention to …