Table 4.

Identified Student Priorities for Educational Needs, From a Study of Perceptions of Safety Culture in Clinical Experiences, University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), 2011

I would like to receive additional training on ...	No. (%) of positive responses*
Practicing effective and safe handoffs to improve patient care	88 (90)
Disclosing an error to a patient	82 (83)
Preventing medication errors	78 (80)
Incorporating the use of checklists to improve patient care	75 (77)
Assessing patients at risk for adverse events	75 (76)
Systematically reviewing a case to identify why an error occurred	70 (71)
Improving my documentation to highlight patient safety issues	66 (67)
Supporting others who have been involved in an error	64 (65)
Coping with an error that I was involved in	60 (63)

^*Positive responses are those who responded “agree” or “strongly agree.” The denominator for each question may vary because not every student responded to every question in the survey.