Designing a Patient Safety Undergraduate Medical Curriculum: The Telluride Interdisciplinary Roundtable Experience |
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Authors: | David Mayer Debra L Klamen Anne Gunderson Paul Barach |
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Institution: | 1. Institute for Patient Safety Excellence , University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine , Chicago, Illinois, USA;2. Office of Education and Curriculum and Department of Medical Education , Southern Illinois University School of Medicine , Springfield, Illinois, USA;3. Undergraduate Medical Education and Interprofessional Patient Safety Education and Research , University of Illinois at Chicago , Chicago, Illinois, USA;4. Anesthesiology , University of South Florida , Tampa, Florida, USA |
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Abstract: | Purpose: Patient safety has emerged as a global concern in the provision of quality health care, and yet, to date, few medical schools have created and/or implemented patient safety curricula. The purpose of this article is to introduce readers to one model of a patient safety undergraduate medical curriculum, as designed by a group of experts attending an annual interdisciplinary roundtable assembled for this purpose. Summary: The Annual Telluride Interdisciplinary Roundtable met in 2005 and 2006 to design what it considered to be a comprehensive patient safety curriculum for medical students. Invited members included stakeholders from a variety of fields, including health care providers, senior health care administration, students, residents, patient advocacy leaders, and curriculum development/assessment experts. The group developed a list of general curricular principles, followed by 11 specific elements felt to be essential to an effective patient safety curriculum for undergraduate medical education students. It also identified a number of challenges to implementing such a curriculum. Conclusions: A patient safety curriculum, developed by a group of experts for an undergraduate medical education population, was successfully developed over a two-year period of time. Future meetings of the Telluride Roundtable group have centered on evaluation and refinement of these curricular elements as pilots occur in a number of medical schools, and new curricular ideas continue to be developed. Continued interprofessional dialogue and collaborative research will enable the development and implementation of a standardized longitudinal patient safety student curriculum. |
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