Context To improve patient safety, medical students should be taught about human error
and the factors influencing adverse events. The optimal evaluation of new curricula for …

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 …

Objective Patient safety has emerged as a distinct health care discipline and an
undergraduate programme on patient safety is being introduced at the authors' institution …

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 …

Objective: To assess medical students' perceptions about patient safety issues before the
teaching of" patient safety" can be recommended. Methods: The cross-sectional survey was …

Introduction: Errors in medicine and patient safety are topics with growing scientific and
public attention. In undergraduate medical education, these issues are little investigated so …

Background Recent educational initiatives by both the World Health Organization and the
American Association of Medical Colleges have endorsed integrating teaching of patient …

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: To reduce harm caused by health care is a global priority. Medical students
should be able to recognize unsafe conditions, systematically report errors, and near …

Purpose To assess the effectiveness of a brief curriculum about patient safety and medical
errors with third-year medical students. Method From 2000–03, third-year medical students …