[Culture of safety and clinical risk management].

An error-resistant safety culture can only be achieved through proactive clinical risk management. In April 2019 the Federal Joint Committee once again increased the pressure on hospitals by means of the Quality Promotion and Enforcement Directive (QFD Directive) to take measures within the framework of clinical risk management in order to reduce the error and harm rate and therefore to significantly improve patient safety. In the long term this can only be achieved by positively influencing the safety culture and thus the attitudes and motives of all employees.

The future of graduate medical education in Germany - position paper of the Committee on Graduate Medical Education of the Society for Medical Education (GMA).

The German graduate medical education system is going through an important phase of changes. Besides the ongoing reform of the national guidelines for graduate medical education (Musterweiterbildungsordnung), other factors like societal and demographic changes, health and research policy reforms also play a central role for the future and competitiveness of graduate medical education. With this position paper, the committee on graduate medical education of the Society for Medical Education (GMA) would like to point out some central questions for this process and support the current discourse.