About the Program

• Patient Safety Course
  • This session has been approved by the American Board of Preventive Medicine as a Patient Safety Activity required for diplomates certifying or re-certifying in Preventive Medicine.
• Learning Objectives
  • Describe medical errors and adverse events, and how they may overlap.
  • Discuss what is known and not known about patient safety statistics.
  • Define primum non tacere and discuss how it relates to medical errors.