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Patient Safety Matters Matters Matter Matter s s Challenges and Opportunities 2006 San Antonio 2005 11th European Forum 2006. Prague. WONCA WONCA AHRQ Resource Center How we see and deal with these matters And why are others Interested in our work?

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Patient Safety Matters. Matters. Challenges and Opportunities. How we see and deal with these matters And why are others Interested in our work ?. AHRQ Resource Center. 2006. 11th European Forum 2006. Prague. WONCA. San Antonio 2005. We are about - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Patient Safety Matters Matters

MattersMatters Challenges and Opportunities

2006

San Antonio 2005

11th European Forum 2006. Prague.

WONCAWONCAAHRQResource Center

How we see and deal with these matters And why are others Interested in our work?

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We are aboutWe are aboutPlacing Patient Safety at Placing Patient Safety at

the of Medical the of Medical EducationEducation

andandPracticePractice

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CONTENT OF THIS AND THE OTHER THREE CONTENT OF THIS AND THE OTHER THREE PRESENTATIONSPRESENTATIONS

•Our Mission, Driving principles, Premises, and Implications•The Burden of Lack of Safety on the Nation

•The Opportunity

•Our approach to lightening the Burden

Main Areas of our Activity

Education/training Safety Practice Enhancement

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Education/training

•Current Situation•Our Approach•Our Aspiration

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Our approach to lightening the Burden

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Patient Safety and Medical Errors receive scant attention in most

Residency (US Post-graduate) and Pre-Doc (Under-graduate) curricula

Despite the fact that Patient Safety is an issue that transcends the desired

competencies

Currently:Currently:

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• In the US all programs are required to address Accreditation Council Graduate Medical Educations’s Six Core Competencies by 2006

• The UN WHO has launched the World Alliance for Patient Safety to advance the safety goal : “ First do no harm”

• UK Academy of Medical Royal Colleges places patient safety at the “heart of good medical practice”

Calls for Patient Safety:Calls for Patient Safety:

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Our Approach•Education/training

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Curriculum Development

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PGCurriculum

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Pre-Doc(UG)

Curriculum

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Curriculum Design and RationaleCurriculum Design and Rationale

Competencies Safety Objectives1. Patient Care

2. Medical Knowledge

3. Practice-Based Learning

4) Communication Skills

5) Professionalism

6) System-Based Practice

Calls for

PatientSafetyTraining

Patient Safety through the ACGME Prism

Achieved through didactic, experiential,

and evaluative components

1. Improve team building skills

3. Encourage and facilitate self-evaluation to instill a culture of safety

2. Reduce inappropriate prescribing

(esp. with geriatric patients)

4. Enhance communication skills with patients/families/colleagues

5. Improve patient safety ethics

6. Analyze system components andaddress system problems to improve safety

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This work is supported by US Federal Funds

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“Tell me and I will forget

Show me and I may remember

Involve me and I will understand”

Emotionally, Intellectually and physically

BUT

Excluding the EGOi.e. HALO!

It is important to be aware of:

“See oneDo one

Teach one”

AVOID this Hazard

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The Six ACGME Core Competencies

Patient Care

ProfessionalismKnowledge

Communication

Practice Based

Learning

SystemBased

Practice

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For accreditation, ACGME will require documentation of residents’ performance in these areas,

not just attendance !

Safety Transcends all Competencies

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Our AspirationEducation/training

Transfer approach across all the domains

Those who work together must be trained together: Transdisciplinary

Roadmap Initiative

We have received About $1 million Fed support

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FOR

About 2 trillion

Patient Safety Education and Trainingare

Likely to provide the biggest