‘Become a Patient Safety Trainer’ Conferences

The Patient Safety Education Project will conduct two to three immersion courses per year to generate multidisciplinary teams of Patient Safety Trainers. Included in these teams are a physician, a nurse, and a health care administrator as basic members. Other health care worker roles may be added as well. These Trainers will then use the Core Patient Safety Curriculum to train others within their own home institutions. The inaugural ‘Become a PSEP Safety Trainer’ Conference is scheduled for May 30 – June 1, 2008, in Pittsburgh, PA. Click here to learn more.

The typical schedule format of such conferences is Friday through Sunday morning, which through experience with the EPEC Project has proven to be optimum for health care worker schedules and attendance. Up to 16 Master Facilitators (Patient Safety Trainers who have taken additional training in teaching and have been recognized by the Core Team as competent) will teach the classes. For the best teacher: learner ratios for delivering this high-impact education leading to optimum learning, 100-125 participants per conference is the maximum number of attendees.

Approximately 400 Patient Safety Trainers are expected to be trained with an end result of 40, 000 end-learners trained throughout the U.S. A second roll-out in Australia is anticipated, and then roll-outs in other countries world-wide will follow.

Professional Development Workshops

The Patient Safety Education Project will also conduct one Professional Development Workshop per year to train Master Facilitators to teach at our ‘Become a PSEP Safety Trainer’ conferences. Click here to learn more about our recent PDW in Atlanta, GA.