Alma Becic Pedersen

I also teach the newly established elective course “Patient Safety in Clinical Practice: Turning Errors into Learning Opportunities” in the Master’s Degree Programme in Medicine at Aarhus University. The course provides students with a fundamental understanding of key patient safety principles and insight into the most common errors, adverse events, unintended incidents, and complications in healthcare. It also explores how the complex factors and their interactions influence patient safety. Furthermore, students are introduced to the tools and methods used to prevent and learn from errors and patient harm, including systems thinking and patient safety analyses such as root cause analysis. The course also highlights the importance of psychological safety and provides insight into how healthcare systems support healthcare professionals involved in errors and adverse events, often referred to as “second victims.” Finally, the course emphasizes the importance of patient safety research and demonstrates how it contributes to the development of evidence-based care, treatment, and rehabilitation.