Teaching M&M rounds skills: enhancing and assessing patient safety competencies using the Ottawa M&M model

BACKGROUND: Postgraduate medical education bodies and national patient safety institutes recommend that trainees develop patient safety competencies such as those for Morbidity and Mortality (M&M) rounds, yet there exists no model for their educational delivery. OBJECTIVE: We studied the effect of a single educational intervention on emergency medicine residents' aptitudes in selecting and analysing M&M rounds cases.