BEING A PATIENT SAFETY ADVOCATE
Session Description: Medical students are often overlooked as valuable participants in ensuring patient safety. Medical students may be an untapped resource for medical error prevention. The session provides medical students on how to recognize errors and what to do when errors and near misses occur.
Speaker: Bonnie Portnoy, RN and Brijen Shah, MD
Location: Annenberg 13-01 (Teirstein Auditorium)
Learning Objectives: At the end of this session, the student learners will:
- Define adverse event and differentiate it from medical error
- Appreciate why reporting of adverse events is a crucial component to learning and quality care improvement.
- Outline the process for serious adverse event reporting and investigation at the MSH
- Describe MERS
- Appreciate the role of the medical student in the SAE process
Pre-Session Assignment: NONE
Readings: NONE