The outcomes card. Development of a systems-based practice educational tool.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education requires competence in systems-based practice (SBP) demonstrating understanding of complex interactions between systems of care and its impact upon care delivery. Patient safety is a useful vehicle to facilitate learning about these interactions.

Aim

Develop an educational tool, Outcomes Card (OC), to reinforce core concepts of SBP.

Setting

Urgent Care Center at Louis Stokes Cleveland Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center.

Program description

Pilot study of an educational intervention for residents that included patient safety didactic sessions and analysis of 2 self-identified clinical cases using the OC. Residents entered the following information on the OC: case description, type o

SUBMITTER: Tomolo A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC1490176 | biostudies-literature | 2005 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature