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Lecture presentation 17 April 2008
Lecture synopsis
The issue of patient safety dominates discussions about healthcare today. A critical part of healthcare involves decision making. Yet despite a highly-evolved medical system, this factor receives relatively little attention.
In this first Dean's Lecture for 2008, Professor Pat Croskerry discusses the current status of clinical decision making in medicine, focusing on cognitive and emotion-based errors that still flow through to mistakes in diagnosis. He presented a new universal model of decision making that applies to medicine, but which can also be used for making decisions in everyday life.
Biography
In 2002, Professor Croskerry implemented the first undergraduate course on medical error in Canada at Dalhousie University. He is prolifically published and has given over 200 presentations on medical safety in the last ten years. He is the senior author of a new book on Patient Safety in Emergency Medicine.
Watch this presentation online (flash video)
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Professor Pat Croskerry MD, PhD
Professor in Emergency Medicine, Dalhousie University
Patient safety expert
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