Research Article: Preparing Emergency Medicine Residents to Disclose Medical Error Using Standardized Patients

Lead author: Carmen N. Spalding
Submitted by: Janice Radway, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania

The ability to disclose medical errors (DME) effectively is crucial in Emergency Medicine (EM). The 2010 American College of Emergency Physicians Policy Statement on Disclosure of Medical Errors directs emergency physicians who determine an error has occurred to provide timely information about the error and its consequences to patients and their families. Despite this mandate, a disclosure gap exists in EM.

To close the disclosure gap, the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) has called for improved education surrounding DME during residency training. Though the use of standardized patients (SP) in DME training has been described in other specialties, there is sparse literature addressing DME training using SP specific to the EM clinical environment. The purpose of the study was to determine if offering this type of training improved EM residents’ ability to DME in the ED setting.

Find out the results in Western Journal of Emergency Medicine here.

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