Open AccessSafety walk-round education to develop risk prediction skills of novice health professional students
Author(s) -
Yoshitaka Maeda,
Yasuhide Asada,
Yoshihiko Suzuki,
Akihiro Watanabe,
Satoshi Suzuki,
Hiroshi Kawahira
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
the asia pacific scholar
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2424-9335
pISSN - 2424-9270
DOI - 10.29060/taps.2021-6-2/oa2406
Subject(s) - comprehension , perception , action (physics) , psychology , medical education , class (philosophy) , risk assessment , risk perception , applied psychology , medicine , computer science , artificial intelligence , physics , computer security , quantum mechanics , neuroscience , programming language
Students in the early years of medical school should learn clinical site risk assessment skills. However, the effect of this training on clinically inexperienced students is not clear, and it is difficult for students to predict risks from a wide range of perspectives. This study aims to develop and implement three patterns of safety walk rounds (SWR) in a class of students with no clinical experience.Methods: Three types of SWR were conducted: (A) 37 students observed a familiar classroom and predicted safety risks; (B) 39 students created a profile of a fictitious student in advance and then used Type A parameters; (C) 100 students participated. First, Type A was conducted as a practice. Next, students observed a hospital and predicted risks. All participants in Types A to C had no clinical experience. We classified all risks into perception, comprehension, and action.Results: For each safety walk-round, there were two types of risk prediction. In Type A, risks such as perception and comprehension were more than 80%. In Types B and C, action risks were 60%. Students had little experience in observing facilities and none at finding safety risks.Conclusion: Each method had a different risk prediction tendency. Combining the methods could enable students to acquire comprehensive skills in assessing hidden environmental patient safety risks.