Evaluation of the Multi-professional Patient Safety Curriculum Guide
The Multi-professional Patient Safety Curriculum Guide is a comprehensive guide for patient safety education and sets the stage for health-care students to begin to understand and practice patient safety.
The evaluation of the Multi-professional Patient Safety Curriculum Guide is taking place in 14 pilot sites. It was initiated in January 2012 and will continue for the next 18 months.
The evaluation of the Multi-professional Patient Safety Curriculum Guide effectiveness as a resource for teaching patient safety to undergraduate and postgraduate students in the fields of dentistry, midwifery, nursing and pharmacy. An evaluation performed as part of the pilot testing will address the following questions:
- Does the Curriculum Guide contain sufficient information and topics to allow its effective use in the undergraduate training of health professionals?
- What is the impact on student learning of the inclusion of patient safety teaching in the Guide?
- In what ways can this Curriculum Guide be used to support the widespread implementation of explicit patient safety education globally?
- How could the Curriculum Guide be modified in the future to best support teaching of patient safety to students in different environments?
Pilot Test Sites
The global evaluation study of the Multi-professional Patient Safety Curriculum Guide is underway in 12 countries across the six WHO regions.
WHO African Region
- Ethiopia: Nursing School, Gondar University, Gondar
- Zimbabwe: College of Health Sciences, University of Zimbabwe, Harare
WHO East Mediterranean Region
- Faculty of Oral & Dental Medicine, Cairo University, Cairo
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Jordan: Faculty of Nursing, Jordan University for Sciences and Technology
Irbid
WHO European Region
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Greece: Dental School, The National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Athens - United Kingdom: School of Dentistry, Cardiff University, Cardiff, Wales
- United Kingdom: School of Health, Nursing & Midwifery, University of the West of Scotland, Paisley, Scotland
Pan-American Region (WHO Region of Americans)
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Argentina: School of Nursing, Faculty of Medicine, University of Del Salvador
Buenos Aires - Mexico: School of Dentistry, National University of Mexico, Mexico City
WHO South East Asia Region
- India: Center for Dental Education and Research, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi
- Sri Lanka: Department of Nursing, Faculty of Allied Health Sciences, University of Peradeniya, Peradeniya
WHO Western-pacific Region
- Malaysia: International Institute for Global Health, (Pharmacy) United Nations University, Kuala Lumpur
- Philippines: College of Nursing, University of the Philippines, Manila
- Philippines: College of Nursing & School of Midwifery, De La Salle Health Sciences Institute, Cavite
Complementary Test Sites
A large number of universities and schools from around the world have expressed interest in actively participating in the evaluation of the Multi-professional Patient Safety Curriculum Guide. These sites have been established as Complementary Test Sites.
Becoming a Complementary Test Site is open to all universities and schools in the fields of dentistry, medicine, midwifery, nursing, pharmacy and related health-care professions. The request to become a Complementary Test Site should be submitted to the following email address: patientsafety@who.int.
List of Complementary Test Sites
- Anglia Ruskin University, Faculty of Health and Social care / Acute Care Department, Chelmsford, United Kingdom
- College of Nursing Jesenice, Jesenice, Slovenia
- Institute of Health Management Research, Jaipur, India
- King's College London, Florence Nightingale School of Midwifery, London
United Kingdom - King's College London, Florence Nightingale School of Nursing, London, United Kingdom
- Málaga University, Department of Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences
Málaga, Spain - Manchester Metropolitan University, Health, Psychology and Social Care
Manchester, United Kingdom - University of Algarve, Department of Biomedical Sciences and Medicine, Faro
Portugal - University of Malaga, Faculty of Nursing, Physiotherapy, Podiatry and Occupational Therapy, Malaga, Spain