Planned by ESA Subcommittee Patient Safety
Marcus Rall, Sven Staender, Doris Østergaard, Francois Clergue, Maurice Lamy, Sven Eric Gisvold, Lazlo Vimlati, Tanja Manser, Peter Dieckmann & Andrew Smith.
Organised by Subcommittee 17 and run by the TuPASS team in collaboration with international and Italian faculty

The one-day post graduate European Patient Safety Course (EPSC) provides you with a very intensive insight into how errors evolve in medicine, what the root-causes are and how patient safety can be improved on a systematic level. International experts will give you an overview of why things go wrong and what works in practice to reduce errors, enhances the safety culture and make patient care safer. Interactive parts and an audience response system (voting) will ensure your active participation. Printed handout material and access to a course resource website will help you sustaining your new knowledge. The course is intended for all physicians and nurses in anaesthesiology and intensive care medicine as an overview and perhaps as a primer to start working systematically on patient safety. For those who are more deeply interested in the field of patient safety, our group will offer a master class in patient safety (interactive 5-day European Patient Safety Course) for those who want to deepen their understanding and learn the application and use of the several tools and concepts pointed out in the one-day course. The course gives you also the unique opportunity to exchange and network with colleagues from all over Europe.