IMSH Conference Update

// January 12th, 2009 // Allied Health Education

I was shocked to learn that 95% of students can not explain the reason/cause of their mistake(s) during simulated healthcare training. (Statistic provided by William Dunn, MD, SSH President, during Plenary Session 1-12-09).

I believe we are in serious need of assessing our educational models and learning theories, especially in environments that do not include simulation for positive debriefing and high fidelity feedback. If students are graduating and moving into practice settings without the ability to identify, analyze and correct their mistakes…medical errors will continue to increase in prevalence.

One Response to “IMSH Conference Update”

  1. SARAH VEAL CPhT. says:
    January 16, 2009 at 4:26 pm

    I used to teach pharmacy technician classes at a private tech school. When a student made a mistake in the pharmacy lab, Ibrought it to their attention and made them retrace their steps and write a paper about the mistake and how it could have been avoided. Once this techinque was implemented and several papers were written I noticed a considerable reduction of errors because the students were more aware of their weaknesses and learned from thoe mistakes!