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Volume 43, Issue 2 (2025)
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Mollabashi R, Sabri M, Omid A, Yamani N, Behshid K. Medical Errors, An Essential Assessment Tool for Continuing Medical Education of Gynecologists and Obstetricians. jmciri 2025; 43 (2) :27-34
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Medical Education Research Center, Department of Medical Education, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran
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Background: Medical errors are one of the challenges of the medical systems. Education of the errors is a solution to reduce it. Thus, education is essential during medical education period or in the form of continuing medical education after graduation. The purpose of this study is to investigate the educational needs of continuing medical education programs for obstetricians and gynecologists based on the medical errors alleged in the obstetrics and gynecology files of the Isfahan Medical System Organization during 2019-20.
Methods: The current study was a direct, retrospective and regional needs assessment study. In this descriptive study, the statistical population was all of the records related to the medical errors of obstetricians and gynecologists, which were recorded in the Isfahan Medical System Organization in 2019-20, (72 cases). Data collection tool was a researcher made checklist based on the information of the records. The data analyzed by SPSS 26 software and descriptive statistical tests.
Results: In the 72 reviewed cases, the most alleged error was related to delivery errors 31 (43.05%) followed by surgery-related errors 30(41.67%). Among the claims of delivery errors, the most error was related to the injury to the newborn during delivery [22 cases (30.55%)]. The allegation of error in 9 cases (12.50%) was proven and a verdict was issued for that case. 21 cases of alleged errors (29.16%) led to death of mother, fetus or both.
Conclusion: According to the results, it seems that education should be focused on the complications during childbirth and the complications caused by surgery due to gynecological diseases. Based on the results percentage of the proven errors is less than the alleged errors; it is necessary that the obstetricians and gynecologists and even the patients are educated about the complications of the delivery and gynecological surgeries and it should be emphasized that these problems are not medical errors.
Background: Medical errors are one of the challenges of the medical systems. Education of the errors is a solution to reduce it. Thus, education is essential during medical education period or in the form of continuing medical education after graduation. The purpose of this study is to investigate the educational needs of continuing medical education programs for obstetricians and gynecologists based on the medical errors alleged in the obstetrics and gynecology files of the Isfahan Medical System Organization during 2019-20.
Methods: The current study was a direct, retrospective and regional needs assessment study. In this descriptive study, the statistical population was all of the records related to the medical errors of obstetricians and gynecologists, which were recorded in the Isfahan Medical System Organization in 2019-20, (72 cases). Data collection tool was a researcher made checklist based on the information of the records. The data analyzed by SPSS 26 software and descriptive statistical tests.
Results: In the 72 reviewed cases, the most alleged error was related to delivery errors 31 (43.05%) followed by surgery-related errors 30(41.67%). Among the claims of delivery errors, the most error was related to the injury to the newborn during delivery [22 cases (30.55%)]. The allegation of error in 9 cases (12.50%) was proven and a verdict was issued for that case. 21 cases of alleged errors (29.16%) led to death of mother, fetus or both.
Conclusion: According to the results, it seems that education should be focused on the complications during childbirth and the complications caused by surgery due to gynecological diseases. Based on the results percentage of the proven errors is less than the alleged errors; it is necessary that the obstetricians and gynecologists and even the patients are educated about the complications of the delivery and gynecological surgeries and it should be emphasized that these problems are not medical errors.
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