Kathleen Mazor et al.
Medical Education
October 2005, Vol. 39, Issue #10, pg. 982-990.
Review by: Linda Heun, Ph.D. <lheun@aacom.org>
The authors suggest that there is a critical need for research that focuses on patient safety in the context of medical education. This article reports outcomes of focus groups on this topic with primary care preceptors. Based on preceptor responses, a model was developed to provide a framework for investigating teaching and learning around errors.
The following barriers to teaching from errors were identified:
- lack of training or direction
- desire to avoid shame or anger in the leaner, litigation or liability and discomfort in future relationship
- lack of time or privacy
- lack of institutional support
- cultural norm not to admit errors/expectation of perfection
- lack of clarity regarding responsibility for the error or seeing the event as an error
- learner's response
- delay between error and its discovery
- unclear or indirect relationship with learner
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