Medical Errors Course
Medical Errors Course is organized by Baylor College of Medicine (BCM).
Release Date: 12/01/2022
Expiry Date: 12/31/2024
Needs Statement:
The Ethics, Professionalism, and Policy Program (EP3) is the ethics education curriculum created by the Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy. The goal of the EP3 program is to educate the medical community about biomedical ethics. The EP3 topics are issues most medical providers encounter regularly but many feel unequipped to handle. The EP3 program’s goal is to provide easily digestible and actionable recommendations and resources about these complicated topics.
Objectives:
At the conclusion of this activity, the participant should be able to:
• Describe what constitutes a medical error.
• Recognize the most common causes of medical errors.
• Identify strategies to handle medical errors and maintain open communication with patients.
Additional details will be posted as soon as information is available.