Ismail Alam Khan, Aziza Alam, Mushyyada Durrani, Nayab Iqbal, Rubeena Gul, Ambreen Akhtar.
Perceptions of Postgraduate Students about patient Safety as Part of the Curriculum at Undergraduate and Postgraduate Level.
J Med Sci Jan ;30(2):147-50.

Objectives: To explore the perceptions and attitudes of postgraduate trainee medical officers towards patient safety in under-graduate and postgraduate medical curricula.Materials and Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted through a self-administered questionnaire by a simple ran-dom sampling technique. The target population for this study consisted of all postgraduate training residents working in two selected teaching hospitals in Peshawar. The total sample size was 80 and data was analyzed by using SPSS software version 20.Results: Out of the total 80 participants 16% were female and 84% were male having clinical experience of 2-5 years. 17(21.3%) strongly agreed that making errors in medicine is inevitable, while 52(65%) participants said that consciousness after encountering errors could reduce the occurrence. About one-third reported that competent physicians do not make medical errors and 55 (68.8%) agreed that patient safety is our moral responsibility. However, there is a lack of a proper reporting system which acts as a barrier. Less than half of the participants were in support of routinely reporting medical errors while 58 (72.5%) disagreed.Conclusion: The Postgraduate medical students of selected tertiary care hospitals had a positive attitude toward patient safety to be part of undergraduate and postgraduate medical curricula in Pakistan. They were aware of medical errors being inevitable but the magnitude may vary from situation to situation.

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