Human Factors Workshop: A Systems Approach to Patient Safety 2026
In-Person Event
Sep 14 - 15, 2026
Columbia, Maryland, USA
11 IPCE ...
56 Day(s) leftOVERVIEW
Human Factors Workshop: A Systems Approach to Patient Safety is organized by MedStar Health and will be held from Sep 14 - 15, 2026 at MedStar Health Central Office, Columbia, Maryland, United States of America.
Description:
Human Factors is a multi-disciplinary science that focuses on understanding the interaction among humans and other elements of a system within a given environment. Applying human factors to healthcare reduces medical errors and allows clinicians to deliver better patient care. Human factors boosts work processes, enhances patient safety, reduces inefficiencies, and improves quality. As healthcare delivery becomes increasingly more complex, human factors engineering has proven to be a powerful approach for proactively reducing harm. MedStar Health is proud to offer this workshop which brings together leaders across the system including human factors engineers, risk management professionals, practicing clinicians, and healthcare safety leaders with vast experience studying risk and implementing innovative change within healthcare organizations. The workshop will include onsite simulation, team-based exercises, and a certificate upon completion.
Objectives:
After completing this activity, the participant will be able to:
- Summarize the core principles of safety science and human factors and how these principles apply to healthcare.
- Adapt and experiment with real-world scenarios using human factors tools and principles.
- Apply the socio-technical systems model.
- Analyze how work-system elements interact to create safe/unsafe conditions.
- Identify system hazards and examine solutions to support the way humans work and empower teams to deliver high-quality care.
- Integrate a team-based approach for evaluating technologies for procurement.
- Apply a human factors team-based approach to the FMEA process, task analysis, and heuristic evaluations.
- Compare, contrast and address work-as-imagined and work-as-done.
- Describe the factors that make a solution effective, sustainable, and feasible in healthcare.
KEY DATES
ACCREDITATION & CREDITS
Accreditation:
In support of improving patient care, MedStar Health is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE) and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.
Credit Designation:
This activity was planned by and for the healthcare team, and learners will receive 11.00 Interprofessional Continuing Education (IPCE) credits for learning and change.
Physicians: MedStar Health designates this live activity for a maximum of 11.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Nurses: This activity is approved for 11.00 ANCC contact hours. Nurses should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Pharmacists: This activity is approved for 11.00 contact hours. This learning activity is knowledge-based.
Physician Assistants:
MedStar Health has been authorized by the American Academy of PAs (AAPA) to award AAPA Category 1 CME credit for activities planned in accordance with AAPA CME Criteria. This activity is designated for 11.00 AAPA Category 1 CME credits. PAs should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation.
Credits:
AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ Physician (11.00 hours), IPCE (11.00 hours), Non-Physician Member of the Healthcare Team (11.00 hours), Nurse - ANCC (11.00 hours), Pharmacist - ACPE (11.00 hours), Physician Assistant - AAPA (11.00 hours).
TARGET AUDIENCE
PhysicianNursingPharmacistPhysician AssistantStudentsNurseSPECIALITIES
Family and Patient Centered CareSUGGESTED HOTELS
CONFERENCE VENUE
MedStar Health Central Office
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