Oates Kim, Sammut John, Kennedy Peter
Clinical Excellence Commission, Sydney, Australia.
Clin Teach. 2013 Aug;10(4):214-8. doi: 10.1111/tct.12037.
The World Health Organization has recognised that patient safety education should begin at the undergraduate level. This should not just be for medical students, but for all students in the health professions. Although all students in the health professions should receive a basic grounding in patient safety, there is also a need to develop future leaders in this field. As a result of widespread early student exposure, some students may become interested in learning more. It follows that a postgraduate approach is also needed.
The New South Wales Clinical Excellence Commission (CEC) has initiated a tiered approach to patient safety education by providing patient safety teaching in medical, nursing and allied health schools. Teaching is provided in cooperation with the host university, and is interactive, using a mixture of interactive lectures, video clips, films and break-out groups to discuss scenarios and feedback from students to their peers about the concepts they have discussed. For medical graduates, the CEC has initiated patient safety teaching in the early postgraduate years, and provides an elective in patient safety for trainee doctor specialists as part of their accredited training. This process helps to identify and mentor future medical leaders in this field.
In addition to teaching the core principles of patient safety to a wide range of students in the health professions, an approach for developing future leaders will provide additional opportunities for motivated students and create opportunities for continuing development in the early postgraduate years and beyond.
世界卫生组织已认识到患者安全教育应在本科阶段开始。这不仅适用于医学生，也适用于所有卫生专业的学生。虽然所有卫生专业的学生都应接受患者安全方面的基础培训，但也需要培养该领域未来的领导者。由于学生早期广泛接触，一些学生可能会有兴趣进一步学习。因此，研究生阶段的教育方法也是必要的。
新南威尔士州临床卓越委员会（CEC）通过在医学、护理和相关健康专业学校提供患者安全教育，启动了一种分层的患者安全教育方法。教学与主办大学合作开展，具有互动性，采用互动讲座、视频片段、电影以及小组讨论等多种形式，让学生讨论情景案例，并相互反馈所讨论的概念。对于医学毕业生，CEC在研究生早期阶段就开展患者安全教育，并为实习医生专家提供患者安全方面的选修课，作为其认可培训的一部分。这一过程有助于识别和培养该领域未来的医学领导者。
除了向广泛的卫生专业学生传授患者安全的核心原则外，培养未来领导者的方法将为有积极性的学生提供更多机会，并为研究生早期及以后的持续发展创造机会。
