Prevention of Medical Errors for Florida Physicians

Prevention of Medical Errors for Florida Physicians is organized by Florida Medical Association (FMA).

Issue Date: December 15, 2021
Expiration Date: December 31, 2023

Duration: 1 hour 49 minutes

General Information:
This activity is specific to Florida statutes and reflects regulations effective March 2020 (MDs) and September 2020 (DOs). Few medical errors are attributed to faculty medical judgment. More commonly, they are attributed to system failures inherent in healthcare delivery. This particular course, originally recorded during FMA 2021 Annual Meeting, features the mandatory content required by the Florida Boards of Medicine and Osteopathic Medicine for the prevention of medical errors, including root cause analysis, error reduction, and prevention, patient safety, and the most commonly misdiagnosed conditions identified by the two Boards.

The purpose of this educational activity is to provide physicians with information, tools, and strategies to minimize common performance and diagnostic errors.

At the conclusion of this presentation, the participant will be able to:
• Identify Risk Management measures designed to prevent medical errors & enhance patient safety
• Recognize common medication errors
• Implement key strategies for preventing medication errors in the outpatient setting
• Describe surgical errors, contributing factors, and solutions to prevent them
• Specify the elements of root cause analysis
• Discuss the five most misdiagnosed conditions during the previous biennium as determined by the Florida Boards of Medicine Osteopathic Medicine
• Meet the requirements set forth by Florida Statutes FS 456.013(7)