Incorporating patient safety into early undergraduate medical education: teaching medical students to perform surgical time outs during anatomy.
Abdul-Rahman M SuleimanDaniel AmarasinghePriya KathuriaJacob VandelJordan HollowayKenneth ElkinPaul WalkerDiane LevinePublished in: BMJ open quality (2021)
Students found the time outs easy to complete and developed the confidence and ability to perform a surgical time out early in their medical education. The new skills, knowledge and attitudes that these medical students have developed will hopefully improve the care they provide to patients, thereby advancing the practice of quality improvement and patient safety in the clinical setting.