'Become a PSEP Safety Trainer' Conference

The ‘Become a PSEP Safety Trainer’ Conference is a two and a half day educational event that focuses on both core patient safety content, and effective teaching approaches for dissemination of acquired knowledge and skills. Attendees learn about human factors design, systems thinking, teamwork, and patient engagement from leading patient safety and medical education experts. Participants are exposed to a variety of education techniques based on adult learning principles including interactive lecture, role play and audio-visual clinical case vignettes.

Participants generally attend in teams from their institution; the teams include at minimum one physician, one nurse and one administrator. Teams receive hands-on experience in implementing clinical practice improvement methods, using the Plan Do Study Act (PDSA) cycle to formulate improvement ideas that can be implemented at their home institutions. The Conference also includes a half-day executive track on the last day for those institutions that also have their chief executive officers (CEOs) and/or chief medical officers (CMOs) attend.

Participants are certified PSEP Safety trainers at the conclusion of the Conference and are equipped to effectively teach their colleagues using the provided PSEP Curricular package including a hard-copy Participant’s Handbook, Trainer’s Guide and presentation slides on CD, and clinical case vignettes on DVD.

Comments from past participants:

“Outstanding! Broad in scope; deep in content.”

“Outstanding set of presenters. Their energy and interest added much to the experience. Additionally, the resources and presentations are excellent!”

“The curriculum contains excellent research and organization. It is ready to use for [project] implementation.”

“The trigger tapes are very beneficial to training.”