Let the patient teach: Patient feedback will help prepare medical students for the changing healthcare world

Who will teach the medical students?

Changing the culture in medical education to teach patient safety.

In 1999 a seminal Institute of Medicine report estimated that preventable medical errors accounted for 44,000-98,000 patient deaths annually in U.S. hospitals. In response to this problem, the nation's medical schools, teaching hospitals, and health systems recognized that achieving greater patient safety requires more than a brief course in an already crowded medical school curriculum. It requ...

Patient Safety and Healthcare Quality: The Case for Language Access

This paper aims to provide a description of the need for Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services (CLAS) for Limited English Proficient (LEP) patients, an identification of how the lack of CLAS for LEP patients can compromise patient safety and healthcare quality, and discuss barriers to the provision of CLAS.

Using video-taped examples of standardized patient to teach medical students taking informed consent

Introduction: Medical student should be trained in medicalethics and one of the most essential issues in this field is takinginformed consents. In this research, we compared the effect ofeffectiveness of teaching methods on students’ ability in takinginformed consent from patients.Methods: This semi-experimental study was carried out on fiftyeight subjects from the 4th-year students of Shiraz U...

Patient safety: helping medical students understand error in healthcare.

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 against errors. A literature review did not reveal any patient safety courses in the core undergraduate medical curriculum. Therefore a new module was designed and piloted. DESIGN A 5-h evidence-based module on understand...