November 3-4, 2011
8:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. both days

Conference Overview

This two-day course will provide practical approaches to enhance patient safety, reduce the risk of medical error, and improve healthcare quality in the clinical setting. Participants will also review and discuss methods for teaching these skills to professionals-in-training.

Course Objectives

At the conclusion of this course, learners should be able to:

• Describe the challenges and emerging strategies to improve quality and reduce medical errors in the U.S. healthcare system.
  
  
• Identify specific methods and approaches to improve quality and patient safety that hospitals, medical groups and other care delivery settings have adopted.
  
  
• Articulate approaches to lead and implement improvement strategies, taking into account barriers to change, such as systems issues, professional resistance, and resource constraints.
  
  
• Identify opportunities and practical approaches to teach quality and patient safety in a clinical environment, including inpatient and ambulatory practice settings.

Who Should Attend

This interactive course is designed for:

• Practicing physicians
  
  
• Physician faculty engaged in undergraduate and graduate medical education
  
  
• Nurses, pharmacists, physician assistants and other clinical professionals
  
  
• Practitioners and faculty engaged in training nurses, pharmacists, physician assistants and other clinical professionals
  
  
• Clinical practice leaders
  
  
• Hospital and health system administrators
  
  
• Patient safety officers

Course Leadership

Evan M. Benjamin, MD, FACP
Sr. Vice President, Healthcare Quality
Baystate Health, Inc.
Associate Professor of Medicine
Tufts University School of Medicine

Douglas Salvador, MD, MPH
Associate Chief Medical Officer/Patient Safety Officer
Maine Medical Center
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Tufts University School of Medicine