A Safer Tomorrow: Investing in Error Prevention Today

Chicago, IL US
May 1, 2025 to May 1, 2026
This activity will introduce participants to safety behavior tactics and communication tools that promote a culture of safety and are evidence-based. These validated tools aid in the prevention of safety events. This activity promotes education to integrate strategies to improve patient safety, which aligns with national patient safety goals. It will incorporate strategies to avoid errors, strengthen communication, improve patient care, and help the entire care team to be competent working together to improve patient care.

Target Audience

This activity is designed for UCMC clinicians dedicated to preventing medical errors.

Learning Objectives

After this activity, participants will be able to:

  • Recall how to apply error prevention behaviors in daily actions;
  • Identify the key performance indicators associated with patient safety culture;
  • State how to integrate high reliability, leadership methods, and error prevention techniques systematically to enhance patient and employee safety;
  • Differentiate between the three ways in which humans make errors reliably;
  • Discuss how to effectively communicate error prevention behavioral expectations within your team;
  • Explain how to reinforce error prevention behaviors within your team.
Additional information
ACGME/ABMS Core Competencies: 
Interpersonal and Communication Skills
Professionalism
Systems-based Practice
For more information, please contact:
CME Coordinator Contact Name: 
Martina Buttilgero, MSN, RN
CME Coordinator Contact Email: 
martina.buttilgero@uchicagomedicine.org
CME Coordinator Contact Phone: 
773-702-2878

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Summary
Available credit: 
  • 1.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
  • 1.75 Participation
Event starts: 
05/01/2025 - 8:00am
Event ends: 
05/01/2026 - 8:00am
Activity opens: 
05/01/2025
Activity expires: 
08/01/2026
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The University of Chicago Medicine
5841 S. Maryland Avenue
Chicago, IL 60637
United States
WANT TO KNOW MORE?
Visit the University of Chicago Medicine's website. For questions about the program, contact Martina Buttilgero via e-mail.
 
ACCESSIBILITY The University of Chicago is committed to providing equal access appropriate to need and circumstances and complies fully with legal requirements of the Americans with Disabilities Act. If you are in need of special accommodation, please contact our office at 773-702-2878 or via email at martina.buttilgero@uchicagomedicine.org.
 
The University of Chicago reserves the right to cancel or postpone this conference due to unforeseen circumstances. In the unlikely event this activity must be cancelled or postponed, the registration fee will be refunded; however, The University of Chicago is not responsible for any related costs, charges, or expenses to participants, including fees assessed by airline/travel/lodging agencies.
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PLANNING COMMITTEE
  Martina Buttilgero, MSN, RN
  Senior Patient Safety Specialist
 
 

 
 
  Maria Macias, MSN, RN
  Director, Risk Management & Patient Safety

 
 
 
 
  Renee Pucik Maisura, MSN, RN
  Executive Director of Perioperative Services
  Assistant Chief Nursing Officer
 
 
 
 
Disclosure Declarations
As a provider accredited by the ACCME, The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine asks everyone in a position to control the content of an education activity to disclose all financial relationships with any ineligible companies. This includes any entity whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients. Financial relationships are relevant if a financial relationship, in any amount, exists between the person in control of content and an ineligible company during the past 24 months, and the content of the education is related to the products of an ineligible company with whom the person has a financial relationship. Mechanisms are in place to identify and mitigate any relevant financial relationships prior to the start of the activity.

Additionally, the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine requires Authors to identify investigational products or off-label uses of products regulated by the US Food and Drug Administration at first mention and where appropriate in the content.
Physician Credit
The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
 
The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
 
Other Participant Credit
Other participants will receive a Certificate of Participation. For information on the applicability and acceptance of Certificates of Participation for educational activities certified for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ from organizations accredited by the ACCME, please consult your professional licensing board.
 
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