Improving patient safety by enhancing raising concerns at medical school.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Doctors and medical students have a professional responsibility to raise concerns. Failure to raise concerns may compromise patient safety. It is widely known that medical students frequently encounter unprofessional behaviours in the workplace, but little is known about the barriers to raising concerns amongst medical students. This paper explores these issues and discusses some innovations in the medical undergraduate curriculum, offering a good practice model for other medical and healthcare curricula. We set out to ascertain the attitudes and experiences of medical students in relation to raising concerns. This data was then used to innovate the raising concerns curriculum, and access to the raising concerns system, in order to fundamentally improve patient safety an

SUBMITTER: Johnson L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6064143 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature