2024/25 Taught Postgraduate Module Catalogue

PSYC5917M Psychology of Patient Safety

15 creditsClass Size: 50

Module manager: Rebecca Lawton
Email: r.j.lawton@leeds.ac.uk

Taught: Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) View Timetable

Year running 2024/25

Pre-requisite qualifications

At least an upper second-class honours degree in Psychology or a discipline containing a substantial amount of psychology and research

Module replaces

PSYC5912M Psychology of Patient Safety

This module is not approved as an Elective

Module summary

Psychology as a discipline has a considerable role to play in patient safety research and development. This module explores how psychological theory and research can be used to influence the patient safety agenda. In the process of developing this knowledge using a problem-based learning approach, students will also have the opportunity to develop a range of transferable skills. They will also develop discipline specific skills relating to critically evaluating evidence, presenting for a non-academic audience and writing a concise report.

Objectives

This module aims to:

1. Enable students to draw on a wide range of psychological theories that span health, social and cognitive psychology to address patient safety issues;
2. Build an advanced understanding of the current priorities in patient safety research, practice and policy;
3. Support students to formulate recommendations for intervention to promote patient safety that are grounded in an understanding of psychological theory as well as healthcare systems and practice;
4. Equip students to present and justify recommendations for intervention in different formats;
5. Extend students’ understanding of how to explain and critically evaluate how theory is translated into practice;
6. Promote the ability to identify and critically discuss the pertinent issues in the application of psychological theory to real-world concerns;
7. Enable students to critically reflect on the development of team working skills and other transferable skills


Module uses problem-based learning which is ideally suited to this applied area; students are presented with cutting edge problems for which they must design interventions. The module will draw on external links at Bradford Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in developing and introducing the problems. Moreover, as the problems will be real, the possibility of knowledge transfer (e.g. benefits to the Hospital Trust) also exists. There are both group and individual learning components to the module, and all require students to develop both their creative and critical thinking skills.

Learning outcomes
On successful completion of the module students will have demonstrated the following learning outcomes relevant to the subject:

1. A detailed and advanced understanding of medical error (e.g. frequency, types, causes and human and financial consequences)
2. Ability to design a feasible, evidence based error reduction interventions (e.g. incident reporting and learning, developing safer systems, designing for safety, implementation of clinical guidelines)
3. Advanced understanding of the role of patient involvement in patient safety
4. An awareness and evaluation of the contribution of psychology to policy development
5. The ability to apply psychological theory to understand and address priorities for patient safety


Skills Learning Outcomes

On successful completion of the module students will have demonstrated the following skills learning outcomes:

1. Application of knowledge to applied domains.
2. Identifying and addressing real world problems.
3. Ability to critically evaluate and synthesis of empirical work.
4. Group working skills.
5. Intervention design.
6. Oral communication skills.
7. Written communication skills.

Syllabus

* Medical error and psychological perspectives.
* Effective Engagement in PBL.
* Understanding the nature and causes of medical error.
* Promoting patient safety.
* Patient safety interventions.

Teaching methods

Delivery type	Number	Length hours	Student hours
Lectures	3	2.00	6.00
seminars	8	2.00	16.00
Private study hours			128.00
Total Contact hours			22.00
Total hours (100hr per 10 credits)			150.00

Opportunities for Formative Feedback

Progress monitoring will occur twice over the course of the module. Within their PBL groups, students will be required to complete and submit a worksheet in weeks 4 and 8 which requires them to detail their progress on the applied problem to date and their planning for the time before the assessment weeks. Feedback will then be provided in the next facilitated group session.

Methods of assessment

Coursework

Assessment type	Notes	% of formal assessment
Report	Individual Report	60.00
Poster Presentation	Group Poster Presentation Problem 1 – 10 mins	15.00
Presentation	Group Presentation Problem 2 – 15 mins	25.00
Total percentage (Assessment Coursework)		100.00

There is no compensation between summative components of assessment, all components must be passed. In the event of failure of one or more component(s), the module mark will be capped at 50 on successful resit of the failed component(s).

Reading list

The reading list is available from the Library website

Last updated: 29/04/2024 16:19:53

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