Zhang Qiyan, Takeda Hiroshi
Graduate School of Health Care Sciences, Jikei Institute, Japan.
Stud Health Technol Inform. 2013;192:992.
Patient safety topics have been widely presented in undergraduate medical education. Some graduate programs have been developed in North America and typically focused on culture and cognitive factors. The Institute of Medicine (IOM)'s report-Health IT and Patient Safety: Building Safer Systems for Better Care addressed important issues that health IT can lead to safer care as well as introduce new risks. There is an increased need to include such topics in safety education programs. In this study, we aimed at reporting our approach regarding the promotion of health informatics as a core curriculum in a master course program. We compared our curriculum with those in recently published papers and major patient safety resources. Then, we conducted an interim survey by asking the first-year students to rate eight important patient safety topics in comparison with the AHRQ's published categories. Health Information Technology (HIT) was ranked as the most interesting topic (response rate was 100%, n=44).Our initiatives would be useful to establish a stronger link between patient safety informatics education and future HIT adoptions.
患者安全主题在本科医学教育中已得到广泛呈现。北美已开发出一些研究生课程，且通常侧重于文化和认知因素。美国医学研究所（IOM）的报告《健康信息技术与患者安全：构建更安全的系统以提供更好的护理》探讨了重要问题，即健康信息技术既能带来更安全的护理，也会引入新风险。将此类主题纳入安全教育项目的需求日益增加。在本研究中，我们旨在报告我们在硕士课程中将健康信息学作为核心课程进行推广的方法。我们将我们的课程与近期发表的论文及主要的患者安全资源中的课程进行了比较。然后，我们通过让一年级学生根据美国医疗保健研究与质量局（AHRQ）公布的类别对八个重要的患者安全主题进行评分，开展了一项中期调查。健康信息技术（HIT）被评为最有趣的主题（回复率为100%，n = 44）。我们的举措将有助于在患者安全信息学教育与未来健康信息技术的应用之间建立更紧密的联系。
