Lessons Learned From the Surgical Morbidity and Mortality Conference

OBJECTIVE: The Morbidity and Mortality (M&M) conference is both a quality improvement and an educational conference. We sought to evaluate the educational and quality improvement value of different learners who attend the surgical M&M conference. Furthermore, we sought to evaluate if an educational intervention directed at medical students (MS) would improve their experience at this conference.DESIGN: Over a 2-month period, we used a third party, real-time audience polling software during 4 M&M conferences using questions concerning medical error, loop closure, learning value, applicability, and professionalism.

Source: Journal of Surgical Education - August 17, 2018 Category: Surgery Authors: Kaio S. Ferreira, Kenneth Lynch, Beth A. Ryder, Michael Connolly, Thomas Miner, David T. Harrington Source Type: research