Medication safety curriculum: enhancing skills and changing behaviors

Medication safety curriculum: enhancing skills and changing behaviors

BACKGROUND Adverse drug reactions are a leading cause of death in the United States. Safe and effective management of complex medication regimens is a skill for which recent medical school graduates may be unprepared when they transition to residency. We wished to assess the impact of a medication safety curriculum on student competency when evaluating medication therapeutic appropriateness as ...

Enhancing Medication Safety and Reduce Adverse Drug Events on Inpatient Medication Administration using RFID

At any time, over 1.4 million people worldwide are suffering from infections acquired in hospital. Approximate 380,000 to 450,000 preventable Adverse drug events (ADEs) occurring annually in the United States. Therefore, patient safety has become a serious global public health issue. The purpose of this paper attempts to improve medication safety and reduce ADEs using RFID technology. For impro...

The Skills Hierarchy and Curriculum

A commonly accepted hierarchy of cognitive skills puts analysis and synthesis near the top, with straightforward knowledge and comprehension at the bottom. A typical Computer Science curriculum, though, usually starts with programming, an activity that requires both analysis and synthesis. The student, without the right conceptual skills, attempts synthesis without analysis, resulting in poor p...

ICT and ChangIng CurrICulum ImperaTIves

Over a period of four years from 2010 to 2014, the UNESCO Institute for Information Technologies in Education (UNESCO IITE) has commissioned from international experts a series of policy briefs that — taken together — provide a comprehensive map of the terrain of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in education. Covering topics ranging widely from the role of ICT in globalization t...

The Changing Medical Curriculum