Training Faculty to do Patient Safety Assessment is Transformative

ACGME’s competencies, safety theory, and human factors engineering concepts were used to develop a 4-station baseline assessment of patient safety knowledge and skills. An example of learning objectives assessed included: “ability to detect design features that make adverse events more likely” and “ability to professionally assert the need for help”. ¶ 40 attendings and chief residents from 10 core residency programs were trained to assist the assessment and become agents of change. Some instructor-raters were initially reluctant but after participation there was a ~95% retention rate and willingness to add curriculum or follow-on assessment seems to markedly increase in the second year of participation.http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/120545/1/medical_mededportal-training_faculty_to_do_patient_safety_assessment_is_transformative-September12.zi