Patient Safety
Activity
PC Session
PC Session
Patient safety is about managing and reducing risk to ensure that the care patients receive is as safe as possible. In clerkship, students will become actively involved in the delivery of patient care. As members of the health care team, students at the clerkship level need to be aware of key concepts in patient safety. They also need to develop an understanding of how to communicate about patient safety issues to each other, to health care team members and to patients.
Curriculum Block
Part 2 / Professional Competencies 2 / Week 3
- Indicates most relevant
Objectives
General Objectives
- Identify ethical issues and dilemmas in their own clinical experiences related to patient care, institutional practices and health policies.
- Employ strategies for successful team functioning as they apply to various learning environments.
- Demonstrate management of practice environments, including charting, public reporting expectations, and malpractice risks.
- Demonstrate appropriate behaviours, habits, and skills required for referral and consultation.
- Apply standards of care, institutional policies, and standard operating procedures.
Assessments
PC Final Student Assessment
PC Interim Student Assessment
Tags
CanMEDS Roles
Collaborator
Communicator
Leader/Manager
Professional
Curriculum Block
Part 2
Professional Competencies 2
Week 3
Curriculum Week
Part 2
Week 3
MCC Presentations
Quality Improvement and Patient Safety
McMaster Professional Competency
Effective Communication
Moral Reasoning and Ethical Judgement
Professionalism and Self-Awareness
McMaster Program Competencies
1.2 Organize and prioritize responsibilities to provide care that is safe, effective, and efficient
3.5 Understand principles of continuous quality improvement and how to incorporate them into practice improvement
3.9 Continually identify, analyze, and implement new knowledge, guidelines, standards, technologies, products, or services that have been demonstrated to improve outcomes
4.3 Demonstrate sensitivity, honesty, and compassion in difficult conversations, including those about death, end of life, adverse events, bad news, disclosure of errors, and other sensitive topics
4.5 Maintain comprehensive, timely, and legible medical records
5.1 Demonstrate accountability to patients, society, and the profession
5.7 Demonstrate the application of ethical principles to commonly encountered ethical issues such as the provision or withholding of care, confidentiality, informed consent, and including compliance with relevant laws, policies, and regulations
6.1 Understand the systems of healthcare, including federal, provincial, municipal and local, and the influences they have on the health of individuals and populations
6.2 Identify aspects of the healthcare system that serve as barriers and enablers of providing healthcare to and optimizing the health of patients and the population
6.3 Advocate for quality patient care and optimal patient care systems that support patient- and population-centred care that is safe, timely, efficient, effective, and equitable
6.8 Participate in identifying system-level gaps and errors and, where appropriate, identify, implement or participate in potential system-level solutions
6.9 Perform administrative and practice management responsibilities commensurate with one’s role, abilities, and qualifications
7.6 Participate in different team roles and appropriately apply leadership skills to establish, develop, and continuously enhance team function.
MeSH
Medical Errors [N02.421.450]
Patient Safety [N06.850.135.060.075.399]
Safety Management [N04.452.884]
Professional Competency
Yes
