Medical students benefit from learning about patient safety in an interprofessional team

An article published in Medical Education by 

Elizabeth Anderson, 

Lucy Thorpe, 

David Heney and 

Stewart Petersen describes how d

elivering patient safety education interprofessionally heightens students’ awareness of the importance of effective team-working for safe care and care delivery.  This is not something that is routinely taught in either medical schools or in post-graduate training programs.  The authors conclude that designing a a workshop on team-based patient safety towards the end of medical education can enable students to assimilate all aspects of their curriculum relevant to safety. Students learn that there is a link between team factors and safety and this is increased when students learn interprofessionally.