Humanizing the Morbidity and Mortality Conference

Reclaiming the morbidity and mortality conference: between Codman and Kundera.

In recent years, a number of commentators have voiced unease about the direction and format of the Morbidity and Mortality (M&M) conference. Drawing on historical, literary and philosophical perspectives, and detailing the recent shift towards incorporating systems-based approaches to healthcare safety into the M&M, this article explores the nature and purpose of the M&M conference. It is argue...

Improving surgery: the surgery morbidity and mortality conference.

Residency education through the family medicine morbidity and mortality conference.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES The value of the morbidity and mortality conference (M&MC) has received little examination in the primary care literature. We sought to understand the educational content of M&MCs by examining data from a family medicine training program. METHODS Archived morbidity and mortality conference data (July 2001-July 2003) were retrieved from two University of Michigan fami...

Trauma-Related Morbidity and Mortality in Elderly Patients

Objectives: The purpose of this multi-center study was to investigate the probable predictive factors of mortality and morbidity in elderlypopulation. Methods & Materials: The descriptive prospective study was conducted based on the data gathered from trauma cases older than 65 years admitted to Sina, Shohada and Fayaz-Bakhsh trauma centers during years 1997-98. A pre-prepared questionnaire ...

INNOVATIONS IN EDUCATION Morbidity and Mortality Conference, Grand Rounds, and the ACGME’s Core Competencies

Morbidity and Mortality (M&M) Conferences are an Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) mandated educational series that occur regularly at all institutions that have residency training programs. The potential for learning from medical errors, complications, and unanticipated outcomes is immense—provided that the focus is on education, as opposed to culpability. The educat...