Patient Safety Improvement Program

Course Overview

Four key modules provide specific content and training. Patient safety curriculum and quality improvement fundamentals modules include interactive exercises and pre- and post-knowledge self-assessments. Improvement activities include opportunities to measure data from practice.
Patient Safety Scenarios	Patient Safety Curriculum	Quality Improvement Fundamentals	Improvement Activities

Engaging patient safety scenarios which illustrate common errors and the complex systems that contribute to adverse events. • Delayed diagnosis • Medication overdose • Wrong patient/ site • Communication failures • System failures	Comprehensive patient safety curriculum covering four key areas. • Epidemiology of Safety and Harm • Systems Approach to Improving Patient Safety • Communication • Safety Culture Includes pre- and post- knowledge self-assessments	Quality improvement fundamentals to apply quality improvement methods and techniques to improve patient safety. • Planning tools • Assessment tools • Evaluation tools Includes pre- and post- knowledge self-assessments	Improvement activities require clinicians to enter baseline data, make changes in practice, and enter re-measurement data to reflect results. • Hand Hygiene • Medication Lists • Allergy Lists • Critical Test Results • Correct Person/ Site • Safer Prescriptions • Discharge Communication Case simulations available

Three course options are offered that utilize different combinations of the modules. These courses are applicable to medical students, residents and practicing clinicians.

ABMS® Patient Safety Improvement Program
(20 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits)

Patient Safety Scenario
(Choose 1)

Patient Safety Curriculum
(4 sections)

Quality Improvement
Fundamentals

Improvement Activity
(Choose 1)

ABMS® Patient Safety Foundations
(2.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits)

Patient Safety Curriculum
(4 sections)

ABMS® Quality Improvement
in Practice
(20 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits)

Quality Improvement
Fundamentals

Improvement Activity
(Choose 1)

Organizational Pricing: Contact a Business Development Representative.

Individual physicians may enroll in the ABMS Patient Safety Improvement Program by following these steps:

Click www.healthstream.com/hlc/retail
Register: Click [First time student click here to register], set up user id and password
Select "Catalog tab", type ABMS in the search window, click [Search]
Select course title and complete course enrollment process
The ABMS Patient Safety Improvement Program is available for $55 and grants 20 AMA PRA Category 1 credits. Completion may also satisfy ABMS MOC requirements based on your Member Board's requirements. Please consult your Member Board's Web site for additional information.