The Sobering Picture of Medical Harm

The $1.6 trillion U.S. healthcare sector is now mired in deep crises related to safety, quality, cost, and access.The rise of performance-based healthcare, evidence-based medicine, changing economic and regulatory environments are driving the application of advanced technologies for healthcare training. Relatively little technical talent or material resources have been devoted to improving the operations or measuring the productivity of the overall U.S. healthcare system.The costs of this collective inattention has been enormous.

Physicians and Nurses Will Have to Learn More Faster

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Healthcare’s Training Needs Remain Unmet

An estimated thirty to forty cents of every dollar spent on healthcare, or more than a half-trillion dollars per year, is spent on costs associated with “overuse, underuse, misuse, duplication, system failures, unnecessary repetition, poor communication,

and inefficiency.” Indeed, the operating room is the most common site in hospitals for adverse events to occur: 47.7%–50.3% of all adverse events affect surgical patients.

Transforming Healthcare Training and Education

A large percentage of preventable medical harm is due to poor training programs, which reduces optimal, intra-operative performance. As professionals from multiple disciplines, whose training and goals differ widely, medical professionals have a unique set of training needs. Increasingly, online training, virtual simulation and clinical simulation will evolve into an integrated delivery system that combines engagement, flexibility, immersion and realism. With performance as the driver, human capital in healthcare becomes more valuable than ever.

EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING MODEL*

LEARN

PRACTICE

PERFORM

REFLECT

REMEDIATE

APPLY

7 about learning
commonly held myths

1   Basics must be learned so well that they become second nature
2   Paying attention means being focused on one thing at a time
3   Delaying gratification is important
4   Rote memorization is necessary
5   Forgetting is a problem
6   Intelligence is knowing “what’s out there”
7   There are right and wrong answers

* Experiential learning is the process of making meaning from direct or staged experiences. It is about transforming the real world experiences of healthcare professionals into learning that can be facilitated and measured.

Size Doesn’t Matter

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Einstein’s Brain

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Let’s work together to achieve zero medical errors.

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ZERO
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