What My Mistakes Taught Me

Overview

Expert Clinicians Share Lessons Learned from Medical Mishaps

What My Mistakes Taught Me is a truly unique and illuminating online CME program. In 22 one-hour lectures, physicians from different areas of medicine and surgery discuss the expertise they’ve gained from problems, mistakes, and errors in clinical practice.

Led by Martin A. Samuels, MD, these experienced clinicians share case studies and the take-away messages learned from their own medical mishaps, emphasizing that:

• While we’re not perfect, we’re still valued contributors to our profession and society
• Perceived mistakes help us live with our imperfections and strengthen our integrity
• Recognized mistakes tell us what works and what doesn’t
• Accepting mistakes helps us take responsibility for erroneous ideas or actions
• Open acknowledgement of mistakes inspires others to do likewise

Topics / Speakers

Overview of Diagnostic Errors in Clinical Practice – In Pursuit of Diagnostic Excellence - David E. Newman-Toker, MD, PhD

Neurology – What My Mistakes Taught Me - Martin A. Samuels, MD

Infectious Disease – What My Mistakes Have Taught Me - Paul E. Sax, MD

Humanism in the Care of the Advanced Heart Failure Patient - Michelle Kittleson, MD, PhD

Mistakes in Rheumatology or What My Mistakes Taught Me - Jonathan S. Coblyn, MD

Lessons from a Pulmonologist in the Frontline - Bartolome R. Celli, MD

What I Would Have Learned from My Mistakes If I Had Made Any - Julian L. Seifter, MD

Going Through Mental Pause: Errors by an Endocrinologist - Carolyn B. Becker, MD

Hematology – Lessons from Our Mistakes - Nancy Berliner, MD

Remove the Blinders – See Something Say Something - Michael D. Apstein, MD, FACG

Psychiatry – What My Mistakes Have Taught Me and Other Lessons - John B. Herman, MD

MRI Imaging Findings – Culprit or Bystander - Zacharia Isaac, MD

Emergency Medicine – Lessons Learned from My Mistakes: Let Me Count the Ways - Jonathan A. Edlow, MD

Learning from Mistakes During a Neurosurgical Career - Edward Raymond Laws, MD

Current Status of Joint Replacement - Thomas S. Thornhill, MD

Patient Experience of Illness and Recovery - Steven D. Rauch, MD

Mistakes are My Legacy – A Tribute to My Mentors Who Helped Me Avoid Catastrophe - Rebecca D. Folkerth, MD

What My Mistakes Have Taught Me – Pain Medicine - Edgar L. Ross, MD

Lemonade and Wisdom – Stepping Stones on the Path to Positive Transformation - Alexander Norbash, MD

Twenty-Five Common Mistakes Made in Daily Clinical Practice - Joseph S. Alpert, MD

Things I Learned in Medical School (and Even Before Medical School) That Were NOT True - Joseph S. Alpert, MD

What I Have Learned from More Than 50 Years of Clinical Medicine - Joseph S. Alpert, MD

Faculty

Course Director

Speakers

Accreditation

Oakstone Publishing is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

Designation

American Medical Association (AMA)

Oakstone Publishing designates this enduring material for a maximum of 19.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits.™ Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

American Academy of PAs (AAPA)

AAPA accepts certificates of participation for educational activities certified for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ from organizations accredited by ACCME or a recognized state medical society. Physician assistants may receive a maximum of 19.00 hours of Category I credit for completing this program.

Date of Original Release: July 15, 2021
Date Credits Expire: July 15, 2024
Estimated Time to Complete: 19 hours

CME credit is awarded upon successful completion of a course evaluation and post-test.

Learning Objectives

At the conclusion of this course, you be able to:

• Identify heuristics that influence clinical decision making
• Discuss how reviewing mistakes and errors can positively enhance clinical skills
• Explain how recognition of mistakes can help with strategies to prevent similar mistakes in the future
• Describe how clinical successes and failures can provide important lessons for clinical decision making
• Recognize how to analyze one’s own experiences as a source of continuing medical education
• Use principles of cognitive psychology to understand the diagnostic process

Intended Audience

This educational activity is designed for all generalists and specialists interested in learning what physicians from different areas of medicine and surgery have learned from problems, mistakes, and errors in clinical practice.

Quick Facts

Provider: Oakstone CME

Course Director:

Martin A. Samuels, MD

Miriam Sydney Joseph
Distinguished Professor of Neurology
Harvard Medical School
Founding Chair, Emeritus
Department of Neurology
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Boston, MA

Credits: Earn a maximum of 19.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™