Program spotlight: Medical error transparency
One of my favorite health care blogs is Paul Levy’s Running a Hospital. Levy is the president and CEO of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) here in Boston. He covers every topic imaginable, and last week, he hit on a great residency-related topic: medical error transparency.
The post describes how a faculty interviewer handled an applicant question regarding the negative press BIDMC has received recently. (For those of you unfamiliar with BIDMC, the institution has received some bad publicity lately, which you can read about in this Boston Globe article.)
In his post, Levy drives home the importance of using medical errors as a learning tool. Unfortunately, medical errors are a harsh reality. Although physicians should do everything in their power to prevent and eliminate mistakes, they happen. Ensuring that physicians, residents, and other medical professionals learn from their own errors and those of others is critical. Levy calls this their quality improvement adventure. Click here to read Levy’s blog entry.
It’s exciting to have someone at such a high level talking so openly about such an important issue.
How does your program foster an environment of openness so residents and all physicians feel comfortable reporting and learning from their medical mistakes?
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Julie McCoy
Julie McCoy is the associate editor for the residency market at HCPro, Inc.
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