Improving safety for medical students and patients during medical electives—a novel simulation-based course

Is Patient Safety Being Effectively Teached In Medical School?

“…In addition, 96.5% of students considered the experience to be good or very good. Following the methodology of a cross-sectional study 19 , a questionnaire was applied to 436 medical students and physicians from the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland to determine the most common elective experiences and establish which procedures and clinical scenarios medical students commonly adopt and manage during the faculty, with the objective of verifying the level of confidence of students in each of these tasks. Based on the knowledge and skills gaps identified with such a questionnaire, a course was developed and administered to two groups of medical students at St George's University London and King's College London medical schools.…”