title: Patient safety training in pediatric emergency medicine: a national survey of program directors.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education requires training in patient safety and medical errors but does not provide specification for content or methods. Pediatric emergency medicine (EM) fellowship directors were surveyed to characterize current training of pediatric EM fellows in patient safety and to determine the need for additional training.
  
  
  METHODS
  From June 2013 to August 2013, pediatric EM fellowship directors were surveyed via e-mail.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Of the 71 eligible survey respondents, 57 (80.3%) completed surveys. A formal curriculum was present in 24.6% of programs, with a median of 6 hours (range = 1 to 18 hours) dedicated to the curriculum. One program evaluated the efficacy of the curriculum. Nearly 91% of respondents without formal programs identified lack of local faculty expertise or interest as the primary barrier to implementing patient safety curricula. Of programs without formal curricula, 93.6% included at least one component of patient safety training in their fellowship programs. The majority of respondents would implement a standardized patient safety curriculum for pediatric EM if one was available.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Despite the importance of patient safety training and requirements to train pediatric EM fellows in patient safety and medical errors, there is a lack of formal curriculum and local faculty expertise. The majority of programs have introduced components of patient safety training and desire a standardized curriculum.
authors.affiliation: The Department of Emergency Medicine, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.
authors.forename: Margaret
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Wolff
authors.forename: Charles G
authors.initials: CG
authors.lastname: Macias
authors.forename: Estevan
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Garcia
authors.forename: Curt
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Stankovic
mesh_terms: D000068:Accreditation / Q000592:standards; D002648:Child; D003479:Curriculum; D003625:Data Collection; D030881:Disclosure; D004503:Education, Medical, Graduate / Q000592:standards*; D004635:Emergency Medicine / Q000193:education*; D005180:Faculty, Medical / Q000592:standards; D006801:Humans; D019300:Medical Errors / Q000517:prevention & control*; D062209:Patient Handoff / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000592:standards; D061214:Patient Safety; D010372:Pediatrics / Q000193:education*; D060891:Root Cause Analysis