Health and Medicine - Emergency Medicine;

New Emergency Medicine Study Findings

Recently Were Reported by Researchers at
Department of Emergency Medicine (Pre-clinical
medical students' perceptions of their patient
safety skills in a simulated emergency
department)
Publication info: Health & Medicine Week ; Atlanta [Atlanta]10 Mar 2017: 2712.

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ABSTRACT (ENGLISH)
According to news reporting originating from Gold Coast, Australia, by NewsRx correspondents, research stated,
"Patient safety has emerged as an important topic for inclusion in medical curricula. According to the news
editors, the research concluded: "However, answers to free text question revealed misconceptions about the
nature of patient safety despite significant teaching on this topic." Pre-clinical medical students' perceptions of
their patient safety skills in a simulated emergency department.

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2017 MAR 10 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Health &Medicine Week -- Investigators publish
new report on Health and Medicine - Emergency Medicine. According to news reporting originating from Gold
Coast, Australia, by NewsRx correspondents, research stated, "Patient safety has emerged as an important topic
for inclusion in medical curricula. However, there is limited literature describing how medical students are taught,
learn and self-assess patient safety skills."

Our news editors obtained a quote from the research from the Department of Emergency Medicine, "The present
study aimed to seek pre-clinical medical students' perceptions of (i) their individual performance at a range of
safety skills; and (ii) how they define patient safety in a simulated ED. Data were collected in the form of
questionnaire responses at the end of the Bond University Simulated ED activity in October 2014. The simulated
ED is a session for pre-clinical medical students prior to their clinical rotations, aimed at preparing them for the
clinical environment. Likert scale and short answer responses were used to describe students' perceptions of their
safety skills and to identify themes related to patient safety. Seventy-eight out of 92 students completed the
questionnaires (85% response rate). The majority of students thought their patients were safe from adverse events
during their shift. However, students' perception of patient safety was wide-ranging and demonstrated a number of
misconceptions. The most frequent strategies employed by students to ensure patient safety were asking for help
from nursing staff or senior doctors, ensuring good communication with the patient and checking allergies before
administering medication. Students had a favourable opinion of their own safety skills."

According to the news editors, the research concluded: "However, answers to free text question revealed
misconceptions about the nature of patient safety despite significant teaching on this topic."

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For more information on this research see: Pre-clinical medical students' perceptions of their patient safety skills
in a simulated emergency department. Emergency Medicine Australasia, 2016;28(3):325-8. (Wiley-Blackwell -
www.wiley.com/; Emergency Medicine Australasia - onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)1742-6723)

The news editors report that additional information may be obtained by contacting E. Raymond-Dufresne, Dept. of
Emergency Medicine, Gold Coast Health Service, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. Additional authors for this
research include V. Brazil, P.L. Johnson and T.L Nielson.

Keywords for this news article include: Gold Coast, Emergency Medicine, Health and Medicine, Australia and New
Zealand.

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Subject: Research; Emergency medical care; Patient safety; Medicine; Perceptions; Student
attitudes; Physicians; Emergency services

Location: Queensland Australia

Identifier / keyword: Gold Coast Australia Australia and New Zealand Emergency Medicine Health and
Medicine

Publication title: Health &Medicine Week; Atlanta

First page: 2712

Publication year: 2017

Publication date: Mar 10, 2017

Publisher: NewsRx

Place of publication: Atlanta

Country of publication: United States

Publication subject: Medical Sciences

ISSN: 15316459

Source type: Wire Feeds

Language of publication: English

Document type: Expanded Reporting

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