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The goal is to reduce preventable patient deaths, and multiple schools already have committed to the curriculum. They include Chapman University School of Pharmacy, Universidad Autonoma de Mexico School of Medicine, San Diego State University School of Nursing and Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine.

More organizations are joining daily, says Steven Scheinman, MD, president and dean at Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine.

\u201cHelping healthcare students and professionals understand how to integrate patient safety into everything they do is critical to creating a culture and infrastructure that reduces preventable harm to patients,\u201d says David Mayer, CEO at the Patient Safety Movement Foundation. \u201cOur curriculum does that and provides them with behaviors and tools they need to prevent medical errors.\u201d

More than 200,000 people die each year in U.S. hospitals, so the idea is to not compete with other schools, but to link to each other\u2019s patient safety curriculum to learn and incorporate desired aspects of other\u2019s curriculum, and adapt it to other organizations\u2019 clinical settings.

The curriculum is innovative in that its modular structure can be used by any learner in the healthcare field and at any stage of professional development. \u201cOur charge was to develop a program that would make education about patient safety an active step that any learner and those responsible for teaching them can take to reach the goal of zero preventable hospital deaths,\u201d Scheinman says. \u201cWe believe this adaptability will greatly facilitate adoption of this curriculum in a wide range of healthcare settings.\u201d

In the early stage of implementation, training is underway to develop faculty to lead various exercises that can help move toward the goal of having no preventable deaths, as well as development of simulations and clinical settings that will be used to guild patient safety skills.
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The goal is to reduce preventable patient deaths, and multiple schools already have committed to the curriculum. They include Chapman University School of Pharmacy, Universidad Autonoma de Mexico School of Medicine, San Diego State University School of Nursing and Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine.

More organizations are joining daily, says Steven Scheinman, MD, president and dean at Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine.

\u201cHelping healthcare students and professionals understand how to integrate patient safety into everything they do is critical to creating a culture and infrastructure that reduces preventable harm to patients,\u201d says David Mayer, CEO at the Patient Safety Movement Foundation. \u201cOur curriculum does that and provides them with behaviors and tools they need to prevent medical errors.\u201d

New med school curriculum to emphasize patient safety

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