Patient Safety Training in Pediatric Emergency Medicine: A National Survey of Program Directors. (July 2014)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Wolff, Margaret; Macias, Charles G.; Garcia, Estevan; Stankovic, Curt; Bonsu, Bema
• Is Part Of: Academic emergency medicine. Volume 21:Number 7(2014:Jul.)
• Page Start: 835
• Page End: 838
• Publication Date: 2014-07
• Subjects: Emergency medicine -- Periodicals; 616.02505
• DOI: 10.1111/acem.12418
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1069-6563

Abstract

<abstract abstract-type="main" id="acem12418-abs-0001"> <title>Abstract</title> <sec id="acem12418-sec-0001" sec-type="section"> <title>Objectives</title> <p>The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education requires training in patient safety and medical errors but does not provide specification for content or methods. Pediatric emergency medicine (EM) fellowship directors were surveyed to characterize current training of pediatric EM fellows in patient safety and to determine the need for additional training.</p> </sec> <sec id="acem12418-sec-0002" sec-type="section"> <title>Methods </title> <p>From June 2013 to August 2013, pediatric EM fellowship directors were surveyed via e‐mail.</p> </sec> <sec id="acem12418-sec-0003" sec-type="section"> <title>Results </title> <p>Of the 71 eligible survey respondents, 57 (80.3%) completed surveys. A formal curriculum was present in 24.6% of programs, with a median of 6 hours (range = 1 to 18 hours) dedicated to the curriculum. One program evaluated the efficacy of the curriculum. Nearly 91% of respondents without formal programs identified lack of local faculty expertise or interest as the primary barrier to implementing patient safety curricula. Of programs without formal curricula, 93.6% included at least one component of patient safety training in their fellowship programs. The majority of respondents would implement a standardized patient safety curriculum for pediatric EM if one was available.</p> </sec> <sec id="acem12418-sec-0004" sec-type="section"> <title>Conclusions</title> <p>Despite the importance of patient safety training and requirements to train pediatric EM fellows in patient safety and medical errors, there is a lack of formal curriculum and local faculty expertise. The majority of programs have introduced components of patient safety training and desire a standardized curriculum.</p> </sec> </abstract>