Unmet Needs: Teaching Physicians to Provide Safe Patient Care
This report makes key recommendations for reforming medical education in order to improve patient safety.
Highlights
- Substantive improvements in patient safety will be difficult to achieve without major medical education reform
- Specific recommendations for changes to reform medical education: Culture, curricula, teaching methods, and one continuous pathway
- Strategies for change
Lucian Leape Institute. Unmet Needs: Teaching Physicians to Provide Safe Patient Care. Boston: National Patient Safety Foundation; 2010.
The Lucian Leape Institute (LLI) at the National Patient Safety Foundation released this report finding that US medical schools are not doing an adequate job of facilitating student understanding of basic knowledge and the development of skills required for the provision of safe patient care. This report makes key recommendations for reforming medical education in order to improve patient safety.
The Lucian Leape Institute Roundtable on Reforming Medical Education concluded that substantive improvements in patient safety will be difficult to achieve without major medical education reform at the medical school and residency training program levels. Medical schools must not only assure that future physicians have the requisite knowledge, skills, behaviors, and attitudes to practice competently, but also are prepared to play active roles in identifying and resolving patient safety problems.
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