The Healthcare Human Factors group is now offering a four-hour course on human factors and patient safety, open to all and free of charge for UHN employees. The course will provide an overview on human factors and will explore topics such as human workload and error, design and evaluation methods, human factors in the physical environment, as well as risk management and incident reporting . Upon completion of the course, health-care practitioners should be better equipped to identify potential usability issues and violations in their workplace and submit these issues to the human factors team for analysis, evaluation and to provide recommendations for change.

The next session will be offered on June 10 2010 from 8:30am to 12:30pm at the Centre for Global eHealth Innovation. Interested participants can register by contacting registration[at]humanfactors.ca.  

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