Teaching Students How to Improve Safety and Quality in Two Children's Hospitals: Building a Pediatric Clerkship Patient Safety and Quality Experience

Acad Pediatr. 2019 Aug;19(6):712-715. doi: 10.1016/j.acap.2019.04.008. Epub 2019 Apr 25.

Abstract

This report describes a novel method to enhance medical student understanding of systems-based practice and patient safety through experiential learning, assessing the perceived value of student-identified patient safety and systems vulnerabilities, and their proposed interventions at academic children's hospitals.

Keywords: feasibility; medical education; medical student; patient safety; pediatric clerkship; quality; safety interventions.

MeSH terms

  • Academic Medical Centers
  • Clinical Clerkship / methods*
  • Curriculum
  • Education, Medical, Graduate / methods*
  • Florida
  • Hospitals, Pediatric
  • Humans
  • Medical Errors / prevention & control
  • Patient Safety*
  • Pediatrics / education*
  • Problem-Based Learning / methods*
  • Program Development
  • Quality of Health Care
  • Students, Medical