An investigation of perception on patient safety on clinical postgraduates

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Objective To Investigate the clinical medicine postgraduates＇ perception on ＂patient safety＂ issues, analyze the potential problem of patient safety education for clinical postgraduates, provide some references and evidences for the further reformation of clinical medicine education system. Methods Total of 154 first-year clinical postgraduate of Jinan University （2012 grade ） were voluntarily surveyed with questionnaire on ＂patient safety＂ issues . Their survey results were divided into three groups： fresh graduates group （group A）, 1-3 year-worked-experience group （group B ） and more than 3 year-worked- experience group （group C） and statistically analyzed with Kruskal-Wallis H／Wilcoxon test . Results The majority of participants agreed that ＂patient safety is chiefly＂ and ＂making errors in medicine is inevitable＂ without being familiar with such perception as ＂definition of latent factors＂, ＂characteristics of a successful error reporting system＂ or ＂the number of preventable adverse events each year in WHO, country and local hospital management department＂. Most of the students were keen to accept effective curriculum and training course on ＂patient safety＂, while over half of them were less reluctant to learn ＂disclosing an error to a patient＂, respondents of different work-experience had some distinction on perception and attitude of ＂patient safety＂ ： students of group A and B agreed that＂ reporting systems can reduce future errors＂ and tend to disclose and investigate ＂ errors＂, but attitude of group C was indifference. Conclusions The perception of clinical medicine postgraduates on patient safety were quite insufficient and superficial. The gap between theoretical education in school and clinical practice is remarkable, furthermore enhancing of the formal curriculum and training system on ＂patient safety＂ for the postgraduate students are urgent, as well as the improving of public health system management such as ＂reporting system of patient safety＂. Key words: Patient safety ; Perception; Clinical medicine ; Postgraduate ; Questionnaire