Medical Education 2012: 46: 97–106 Objectives This study aims to review, critically, the
suitability of Kirkpatrick's levels for appraising interventions in medical education, to review …

Medical Education 2012: 46: 1042–1054 CONTEXT Many quality improvement education
programmes have been introduced over the last decade with the purpose of enhancing …

Medical Education 2012: 46: 107–119 Context During the last decade, there has been a
drive to improve the quality of patient care and prevent the occurrence of avoidable errors …

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

Purpose Diagnostic errors in medicine are common and costly. Cognitive bias causes are
increasingly recognized contributors to diagnostic error but remain difficult targets for …

Purpose To develop a patient safety curriculum and evaluate its impact on medical students'
safety knowledge, self-efficacy and system thinking. Methods This study reports on …

Purpose To assess medical students' and residents' experiences with defensive medicine,
which is any deviation from sound medical practice due to a perceived threat of liability …

As North American medical schools reformulate curricula in response to public calls for
better patient safety, surprisingly little research is available to explain and improve the …

Evidence scans provide a rapid collation of empirical research about a topic relevant to the
Health Foundation's work. Although all of the evidence is sourced and compiled …

Background: We developed a course to introduce incoming third‐year medical students to
the subject of patient safety, to focus their attention on teamwork and communication, and to …