Highlights & Benefits

Patient safety, Teamwork and Crisis Resource Management

Patient Safety

Patient safety is an integral component of healthcare and many efforts are underway to reduce medical errors and injuries and malpractice claims that result from them. Obstetrical and surgical adverse events often involve failures of team performance. The increasingly high cost of obstetrical malpractice claims has made patient safety and error reduction priorities for loss prevention interventions, with a focus on interventions that improve teamwork and communication.

Teamwork and Crisis Management

Labor and Delivery clinicians can improve their skills in managing and debriefing routine and critical clinical events; managing difficult conversations and disclosure and apology for adverse clinical events. There is now a well publicized need to facilitate a culture of safety, creating an environment that is more open to discussion of medical errors and how team performance can mitigate such errors. By providing training, reflection and deliberate practice in these areas, the courses in Crisis Resource Management for Labor and Delivery clinicians addresses these needs that are not provided in any other venue.

Lower Premiums

CRICO/RMF insured physicians and midwives who complete a Labor and Delivery course at the Center for Medical Simulation as well as RMF CME website coursework and pass a short test on CRICO obstetrical guidelines qualify for a lower premium underwriting specialty category from CRICO/RMF for two years. Obstetricians insured by Coverys who participate in a Labor and Delivery Crisis Resource Management course at the Center for Medical Simulation qualify for an annual premium discount. Please contact your assigned agent directly for further details on how to obtain this discount.