ArticleBMC nursing2023
Patient safety topics, especially the second victim phenomenon, are neglected in undergraduate medical and nursing curricula in Europe: an online observational study.
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- Global trends and thematic clusters in healthcare professional education, medical errors, and patient safety: a bibliometric analysis, 2000-2026.Frontiers in medicine · 2026Pooled it
- Unveiling the hidden struggle of healthcare students as second victims through a systematic review.BMC medical education · 2024Pooled it
- Mapping the Second Victim Experience Among Western Nurses: A Scoping Review.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Repercussions of the second victim phenomenon on health care workers: Scoping review.PloS one · 2026Article
- Patient safety and the second victim phenomenon in nursing and medical curricula: A qualitative study.International journal of nursing studies advances · 2025Article
- Sustaining perioperative patient safety improvement: the relevance of patient safety policies and contextual factors in European healthcare systems.International journal for quality in health care : journal of the International Society for Quality in Health Care · 2025Article
- Barriers and facilitators of nurse second victim of patient safety incident actively to seek support: a qualitative study.BMC nursing · 2025Article
- Development and testing of an online course on the second victim phenomenon: a three-dimensional evaluation and proof of concept.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
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- The second victim phenomenon in medical education: Development of learning objectives based on the National Competency-based Catalogue of Learning Objectives for Undergraduate Medical Education (NKLM).GMS journal for medical education · 2025Review
- Psychological Safety Competency Training During the Clinical Internship From the Perspective of Health Care Trainee Mentors in 11 Pan-European Countries: Mixed Methods Observational Study.JMIR medical education · 2024Observational
- Application and Evaluation of a Multimodal Training on the Second Victim Phenomenon at the European Researchers' Network Working on Second Victims Training School: Mixed Methods Study.JMIR formative research · 2024Article
- Development and Implementation of a Safety Incident Report System for Health Care Discipline Students During Clinical Internships: Observational Study.JMIR medical education · 2024Observational
- Evaluating the Integration of Patient Safety in Medical Training in Spain.International journal of public health · 2024Article
- Speaking Up About Patient Safety, Withholding Voice and Safety Climate in Clinical Settings: a Cross-Sectional Study Among Ibero-American Healthcare Students.International journal of public health · 2024Article
- Editorial: Psychological Safety in Healthcare Settings.International journal of public health · 2024Article
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Abstract
This study aims to assess the inclusion of second victims and other patient safety issues in the curricula of undergraduate medical and nursing degrees in the countries participating in the European Researchers' Network Working on Second Victims (The ERSNT Consortium, COST Action 19,113). A review of medical and nursing school curricula in 206 universities was carried out, using their websites to search for subjects addressing "patient safety", "quality of care", "risk management", "safe practices", "interprofessional communication", "adverse events", and "second victims". There was substantial variability in the extent of training for patient safety. Forty-four out of 88 nursing schools and 74 of 118 medical schools did not include any of the patient safety topics studied. The most frequent in both nursing and medicine was "interprofessional communication", followed by "quality of care" and basic aspects on "patient safety". The second victim phenomenon was present in only one curriculum of the total sample. Our study showed that patient safety, especially the second victim phenomenon, is still neglected in medical and nursing curricula in European universities, although positive initiatives were also found. Given the frequency with which adverse events occur in health centres and the need to prepare students to deal with them adequately, additional efforts are needed to introduce patient safety elements into medical and nursing education.
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