How to HEEAL: A Patient and Peer-Centric Simulation Curriculum for Medical Error Disclosure.

Introduction: Medical errors are an unfortunate certainty with emotional and psychological consequences for patients and health care providers. No standardized medical curriculum on how to disclose medical errors to patients or peers exists. The novel HEEAL (honesty/empathy/education/apology-awareness/lessen chance for future errors) curriculum addresses this gap in medical education through a multimodality workshop.

Front-Line Health Care Workers' COVID-19 Infection Contamination Risks: A Human Factors and Risk Analysis Study of Personal Protective Equipment.

Infectious risks escalate with complex donning and doffing personal protective equipment (PPE) protocols. Recent studies suggest that PPE donning and doffing behaviors that deviate from protocol during PPE reuse compounded the risks of health care worker (HCW) self-contamination. This study quantified the occurrence of behaviors associated with known risks in PPE use and reuse.

A Simulation-based PPE orientation training curriculum for novice physicians.

Background: Personal protective equipment (PPE) is effective in preventing coronavirus disease (COVID-19) infection. Resident knowledge of proper use and effective training methods is unknown. We hypothesise that contamination decreases and knowledge increases after a formalised PPE educational session.

How Can Personal Protective Equipment Be Best Used and Reused: A Closer Look at Donning and Doffing Procedures.

Objective: The aim of this study was to examine safety-related contamination threats and risks to health-care workers (HCWs) due to the reuse of personal protective equipment (PPE) among emergency department (ED) personnel.

Methods: We used a Participatory Design (PD) approach to conduct task analysis (TA) of PPE use and reuse. TA identified the steps, risks, and protective behaviors involved in PPE reuse.

Reuse of Personal Protective Equipment: Results of a Human Factors Study Using Fluorescence to Identify Self-Contamination During Donning and Doffing.

Background: At least 115,000 health and care workers (HCWs) are estimated to have lost their lives to COVID-19, according to the the chief of the World Health Organization (WHO). Personal protective equipment (PPE) is the first line of defense for HCWs against infectious diseases. At the height of the pandemic, PPE supplies became scarce, necessitating reuse, which increased the occupational COVID-19 risks to HCWs.

Disaster Day: A Simulation-Based Disaster Medicine Curriculum for Novice Learners.

Background: Mass casualty and multi-victim incidents have increased in recent years due to a number of factors including natural disasters and terrorism. The Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) recommends that medical students be trained in disaster preparedness and response. However, a majority of United States medical students are not provided such education.