The WHO patient safety curriculum guide for medical schools

Abstract

To address this gap and provide a foothold for medical schools all around the world, the WHO's World Alliance for Patient Safety sponsored the development of a patient safety curriculum guide for medical students. The WHO Patient Safety Curriculum Guide for Medical Schools adopts a 'one-stop-shop' approach in that it includes a teacher's manual providing a step-by-step guide for teachers new to patient safety learning as well as a comprehensive curriculum on the main patient safety areas. This paper establishes the need for patient safety education of medical students, describes the development of the WHO Patient Safety Curriculum Guide for Medical Schools and outlines the content of the Guide.

Limited knowledge and practice of Chinese medical students regarding health-care associated infections

“…This phenomenon plus other patient safety issues, commonly found in various medical professions, have therefore been recently addressed by the WHO's World Alliance for Patient Safety with a publication "The WHO Patient Safety Curriculum Guide for Medical Schools" [15]. In response to the shortcomings observed in this study, in SUMC we have already introduced health-care safety (i.e., patient and HCW safety) as a case study followed by a targeted lecture to third-year preclinical medical students and plan to assess the impact of this intervention in their final year.…”

“…Specifically, focused teaching on selected issues, such as reportable epidemiologically important pathogens per the institutional guidelines, basic concepts and applications of standard and isolation precautions, and HCW safety according to the CDC's guidelines, and patient safety as recommended by the WHO [15], should be included in the Infection and Immunity curricular module.…”

A UK Perspective on Human Factors and Patient Safety Education in Pharmacy Curricula

“….improved patient safety." 11 The reviewed studies concurred, indicating that few American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education 2018; 82 (3) Article 6184.…”

“…In 2011, the World Health Organization (WHO) published a patient safety curriculum for educational staff, but little is known about how education providers ensure learners develop patient safety competencies and even less about teaching HFE principles. 5,[11][12][13][14][15][16] In Scotland, 15% of hospital admissions are drugrelated and preventable with over half resulting from monitoring and/or prescribing errors. 17 While these errors have complex causality, the pharmacist represents a key point in the error chain.…”

Comparison of patient safety culture among psychiatric, general, and specialized hospitals of Tehran

“…Safety culture has been noticed in various industries in order to frame some interventions for addressed gaps [17]. Meanwhile, WHO and many professional authorities have advocating for patient safety programs aiming for promoting patient safety condition [40] [41]. Toward assessing PSC and to address patient safety gaps the Agency for Health Care Research and Quality framed a helpful tool called Hospital Survey on PSC namely Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture (HSOPSC) [42], which has been employed in a wide spectrum of health care organizations [43] [44] [45] [46].…”