Incorporating Healthcare Risk Management into Podiatric Surgical Residency Training
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Incorporating Healthcare Risk Management into Podiatric Surgical Residency Training Christine Miller 1
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Jason Piraino 2
# International Association of Medical Science Educators 2019
Abstract In an effort to emphasize the practical importance of patient safety to the next generation of podiatric surgeons, a short healthcare risk management seminar was implemented. The purpose of this course is to demonstrate how safer and more quality oriented practices such as better provider-patientcommunication can help reduce the risk of medical malpractice cases. Keywords Patient safety . Healthcare risk management . Resident education
Background The subject of healthcare risk management is included in the curriculum by all nine schools of podiatric medicine within the USA as determined by the American Association of Colleges of Podiatric Medicine (AACPM) under the category of healthcare law [1]. During podiatric surgical residency training, however, there are no requirements to provide postgraduate education in risk management by the Council of Podiatric Medical Education (CPME) [2]. At the University of Florida (UF) Health System in Jacksonville, the podiatric surgery residency program (3year surgical discipline) has already implemented a patient safety/quality initiative modeled after the Clinical Learning Environment Review (CLER) set forth by the Accreditation Council of Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) [3]. In an effort to emphasize the practical importance of patient safety to the next generation of podiatric surgeons, a short healthcare risk management seminar was proposed. The purpose of this course would be to demonstrate how safer and more quality-
* Christine Miller [email protected] 1
Department of Orthopedic Surgery, College of Medicine-Jacksonville, University of Florida, 655 West 8th Street, Jacksonville, FL 32209, USA
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Foot & Ankle Surgery Division, Department of Orthopedic Surgery, College of Medicine-Jacksonville, University of Florida, 655 West 8th Street, Jacksonville, FL 32209, USA
oriented practices such as better provider-patient communication can help reduce the risk of medical malpractice cases.
Activity To determine the level of interest in this topic, all nine UF Health podiatric surgical residents (four out of the nine schools of podiatric medicine are represented in this cohort) were emailed an anonymous optional online questionnaire via SurveyMonkey regarding their knowledge about healthcare risk management. This initial survey consisted of five multiple choice questions gauging their previous exposure to the topic and the perceived relevance of risk management to their future practice (Table 1). After the responses were collected with significant interest in pursuing this topic, an educational seminar on healthcare risk management (podiatric surgery specific) 1 hour in length was conducted in lecture format along with online resources provided. All of the nine residents attended this lecture as well as four attending surgeons affiliated with the resi
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