Background The urgent need for patient safety education for healthcare students has been
recognised by many accreditation bodies, but to date there has been sporadic attention to …

Background: In 2004, The Australian Council for Safety and Quality in Health Care
recognised that the lack of a comprehensive framework describing competencies for patient …

Background As efforts to integrate patient safety into health professional curricula increase,
there is growing recognition that the rate of curricular change is very slow, and there is a …

Background We sought to investigate the formal and informal ways preregistration students
from medicine, nursing, pharmacy and the allied healthcare professions learn about patient …

Background Enhancing competency in patient safety at entry to practice requires
introduction and integration of patient safety into health professional education. As efforts to …

Background: Substantial efforts are focused on the high prevalence of patient harm due to
medical errors and the mechanisms to prevent them. The potential role of the medical …

In this literature review, we examine to what extent patient safety is addressed within
medical and nursing curricula. Patient safety is the foundation of healthcare practice and …

Background Quality and patient safety (PS) are critical components of medical education.
This study reports on the self-reported PS competence of medical students and …

Education of health care professionals has given little attention to patient safety, resulting in
limited understanding of the nature of risk in health care and the importance of strengthening …

National efforts to improve the quality and safety of health care present challenges for
medical education and training.• Today's doctors need to be skilled communicators who …