KCOM student to represent ATSU at national patient safety conference
Posted: May 9, 2013
Bhargav Chandrashekar, OMS II, A.T. Still University’s Kirksville College of Medicine, has been awarded a scholarship to represent ATSU at the ninth annual Telluride Patient Safety Educational Roundtable and Student Summer Camp, July 31 – Aug. 4., on the MedStar Georgetown University Medical Center Campus in Washington, DC. He is one of only 40 medical students from across the country competitively chosen to participate, thanks to scholarships funded by The Doctors Company Foundation and MedStar Health.
This year’s topic, The power of change agents: Teaching caregivers effective communication skills to overcome the multiple barriers to patient safety and transparency, brings together interprofessional leaders from patient safety, informatics, graduate medical education and health science education with patient advocates and students to address patient safety educational issues.