A National Patient Safety Curriculum in Pediatric Emergency Medicine.

Stankovic C, Wolff M, Chang TP, Macias C. A National Patient Safety Curriculum in Pediatric Emergency Medicine. Pediatr Emerg Care. Aug, 2019;35(8):519-521.

This paper describes a web-based curriculum that was created by the Committee on Quality Transformation of the Section of Emergency Medicine for the American Academy of Pediatrics. The curriculum consisted of emergency-specific safety topics presented via didactic sessions and assessed with a pretest and posttest. Vignette-based scenarios were also included. The authors concluded that an online centralized curriculum is an effective platform for teaching quality and safety content to a national group of physicians and that local program director oversight may improve compliance with curriculum completion.

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