Course Detail
Units:
0.5
Course Components:
Practicum
Description
This interprofessional education course prepares students to disclose medical errors as a health professional team. Teams of students from various health professions including pharmacy, medicine, nursing, physicians assistant, and others participate in an in-person simulation to disclose a medication error in a hospital setting that could result in serious harm or death of the patient. Students learn the basic principles of effective error disclosure in an authentic scenario where they play the role of their profession on a health care team.