Collaborative Learning Approach: a Safety Huddle

Abstract

[EN] To change behaviours regarding Patient Safety (PS), it is important to select the right pedagogical strategy to promote it. The PS huddle strategy, implemented was based in a role-play situation, based on a topic included in the Portuguese National Patient Safety Plan. This strategy seems to have contributed to raising twelve students' of first edition of postgraduate course in clinical supervision awareness and interest in the PS subject. All the students indicated the strategy as a methodology that facilitates learning in class, promote creativity, critical mind and emotional inteligence development. It was also described as easily replicable for the various healthcare scenarios, regardless of the level of action. The use of new active teaching approaches in higher education are an important way to help student´s developing them soft and hard skills and should be integrated more often in the postgraduate courses.They indicated the importance of replicating in future editions.