Objectives Reporting medical errors is a focus of the patient safety movement. As frontline
physicians, residents are optimally positioned to recognize errors and flaws in systems of …

Article-at-a-Glance Background A lack of formal patient safety curricula has contributed to
the suboptimal training of medical students and housestaff. Attitudes of physician trainees …

Background: Identifying informed and interested staff to teach patient safety can be difficult.
We report our experiences with a lecture-based program on patient safety delivered by …

BACKGROUND: The Institute of Medicine has called for physician education as a key step in
medical error prevention. In our 2002 national survey, pediatric resident education about …

This resource is a curriculum guide designed to teach medical students and family practice
residents about medical errors and patient safety—a glaring deficit in medical education …

Background.—National organizations have called for patient safety curricula to help reduce
the incidence of errors. Little is known about what trainees are taught about medical errors …

Patient safety and quality improvement in healthcare has been a principle focus for more
than a decade. Deaths attributable to medical errors have been estimated to be the third …

This study explores the workplace dynamics associated with physicians and medical
mistakes. Two residency settings (ie, surgery and intensive care) were subjected to direct …

Objectives Reporting of adverse and near miss events are essential to identify system level
targets to improve patient safety. Resident physicians historically report few events despite …

Background Internal Medicine resident (IMR) physician reporting of patient safety events
(PSEs) is suboptimal and may be related to poor attitudes toward reporting. Purpose The …