Mistake-Based Learning in Cardiology: Avoiding Medical Errors

Medical errors are one of the leading causes of death.

Deliver the highest quality care to your patients by recognizing and minimizing common mistakes.

Providing quality care free of clinical errors isn’t just a matter of knowing what to do in any given situation―it’s about actively knowing what not to do. Mistake-Based Learning in Cardiology: Avoiding Medical Errors provides healthcare professionals with a summary of the common ways to inadvertently cause medical errors for each major clinical action. This resource also provides valuable information on why the mistake may be made and openly discusses medical errors to facilitate growth, learning, and psychological safety in today’s workplace.

• Identifies the most common errors associated with each disease and clinical action
• Dissects each mistake into potential reasoning errors and pinpoints the major clinical principles related to the error
• Helps you understand why the mistake was made and how to avoid similar mistakes, empowering you with pre-emptive thoughts that act as an excellent first-line defense against medical mistakes
• Supports you with timely, point-of-care solutions if the medical error were to occur
• Uses a concise, templated format for quick reference and review
• Helps prepare you for clinical rotations and future practice, as well as for the medicine and cardiology board exams
• An eBook version is included with purchase. The eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures and references, with the ability to search, customize your content, make notes and highlights, and have content read aloud

Bliss Chang is an Internal Medicine resident at New York Presbyterian Hospital and Columbia University who is immensely passionate about revolutionizing the way medicine is taught. He received his MD from Harvard Medical School where he was named as the top performer in the advanced medicine rotation. He has a book publishing soon with Elsevier, Introduction to Evidence-Based Medicine: Key Summaries for Common Medical Practices; a title with Springer, The Ultimate Medical School Rotation Guide. He has also created educational videos for the famed First Aid Step 1 book and published numerous research articles on topics such as protein function in leading journals such as Nature Communications. Notably, he is co-founder and CEO of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology funded start-up that aims to help medical providers minimize medical errors. Bliss has been featured in several notable events such as Elsevier’s Global Clinical Challenge and was featured in the video A Day in the Life of a Harvard Medical Student which has grossed half a million views.