title: Patient safety instruction in US health professions education.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To describe patient safety instruction in health professional curricula, including medicine, nursing, pharmacy, and dentistry.
  
  
  METHODS
  A systematic review of the literature from 1966 through 2010 was conducted using 6 databases and based on 3 search criteria: safety management, patient safety, and curriculum.
  
  
  RESULTS
  One hundred fifty-four articles were identified and 23 met inclusion criteria. A variety of educational methods have been used in health profession curricula to promote patient safety including lectures, workshops, objective structured clinical examinations, standardized patients, simulation exercises, root cause analysis, quality assurance projects, and other interactive learning methods. The development of patient safety curricula has been primarily discipline-specific, with little interdisciplinary research found.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Safe, patient-centered care is directly influenced by the quality of education that healthcare professions students receive. From this literature review, research is needed to guide curricular change, specifically focusing on instructional methods and interdisciplinary collaborations.
authors.affiliation: School of Pharmacy, Manchester College, Fort Wayne, IN 46805, USA. mekiersma@manchester.edu
authors.forename: Mary E
authors.initials: ME
authors.lastname: Kiersma
authors.forename: Kimberly S
authors.initials: KS
authors.lastname: Plake
authors.forename: Patricia L
authors.initials: PL
authors.lastname: Darbishire
mesh_terms: D002983:Clinical Competence / Q000592:standards; D003479:Curriculum / Q000592:standards*; D006266:Health Education / Q000379:methods / Q000592:standards*; D006281:Health Occupations / Q000193:education* / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D061214:Patient Safety / Q000592:standards*; D014481:United States
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