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Timothy McDonald, MD, JD, discusses factors that can make already difficult conversations with patients and their loved ones after harm events even more challenging and complex and offers recommendations to mitigate these challenges.


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CAI Issue Brief 2: Mitigating the Toll of Medical Errors on Clinicians

Jo Shapiro, MD, FACS, talked about how peer support programs can both help alleviate some negative emotional impact of medical errors on the involved clinicians and in progression towards a culture of psychological safety in organizations.


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CAI Webinar: Mitigating the Toll of Medical Errors on Clinicians

Mitigating the Toll of Medical Errors on Clinicians by Jo Shapiro, MD, FACS

Webinar Date: October 31, 2019

As a clinician, being involved in adverse events can have devastating emotional consequences. How we react to these events – as individuals, colleagues and organizations – has a major effect on our organizational culture of psychological safety, provider wellbeing, disclosure and reporting, and patient safety.  Dr. Shapiro’s presentation will detail these effects and address the unique role that frontline physicians can play in supporting one another after adverse events. She will describe the peer support program developed at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and adopted by dozens of healthcare organizations. She will describe the building blocks of a creating and sustaining a peer support program, including providing the participants with the rationale to bring to leadership in advocating for peer support program resources.

Learning Objectives:

  1. Identify the emotional impact of adverse events on clinicians
  2. Recognize the impact this has on a culture of psychological safety, provider wellbeing, disclosure and reporting, and patient safety.
  3. Provide a rationale to leadership for developing a peer support program
  4. Delineate the foundational aspects of a peer support program