Prevention of Medical Errors Course

Prevention of Medical Errors Course is organized by Virtual Medical Academy (VMA).

Introduction:
Despite how health systems are good and efficient, medical errors are still the third-leading cause of death after heart disease and cancer.

The responsibility of preventing and managing these errors is relay on each individual at the health system, knowing the causes and management methods of those errors are the key to guaranteeing patient safety.

Join us in this pre-recorded course to explore approaches to prevent medical errors.

Objectives:
By the end of this course you will be able to:
• Differentiate between valiant medical error terminology.
• Identify the most important causes of medical errors.
• Become aware of your responsibilities for reporting medical errors.
• Learn management methods for medical errors.
• familiarized with patient and health professional rights
• Learn the legal process for medical error complaints, investigations, and trials

Main theme:
The pre-recorded course of short lectures, each lecture will be about 10 -15 minutes.

This course consists of 2 parts:
1- The first part will discuss the following topics:
1. Introduction
2. Medical errors terminology
3. Types of medical errors
4. Causes of medical errors
5. Ergonomics
6. Prevention of medical errors and risk management
7. Case study

2- The second part will discuss the following topics:
1. Patients' rights
2. What should a patient do when a medical error occurs?
3. When health professionals should be liable for a medical error?
4. The legal process for medical error complaints, investigations, and trials.
6. Health professionals' rights and duties
7. What should health professionals know about health laws?