Human Factors Workshop: A Systems Approach to Patient Safety - September 14-15, 2026

Monday, September 14, 2026, 8:00 AM - Tuesday, September 15, 2026, 1:00 PM, 10980 Grantchester Way, Columbia, MD

Human Factors is a multi-disciplinary science that focuses on understanding the interaction among humans and other elements of a system within a given environment. Applying human factors to healthcare reduces medical errors and allows clinicians to deliver better patient care. Human factors boosts work processes, enhances patient safety, reduces inefficiencies, and improves quality. As healthcare delivery becomes increasingly more complex, human factors engineering has proven to be a powerful approach for proactively reducing harm. MedStar Health is proud to offer this workshop which brings together leaders across the system including human factors engineers, risk management professionals, practicing clinicians, and healthcare safety leaders with vast experience studying risk and implementing innovative change within healthcare organizations. The workshop will include onsite simulation, team-based exercises, and a certificate upon completion.

1. Summarize the core principles of safety science and human factors and how these principles apply to healthcare.
2. Adapt and experiment with real-world scenarios using human factors tools and principles.
3. Apply the socio-technical systems model.
4. Analyze how work-system elements interact to create safe/unsafe conditions.
5. Identify system hazards and examine solutions to support the way humans work and empower teams to deliver high-quality care.
6. Integrate a team-based approach for evaluating technologies for procurement.
7. Apply a human factors team-based approach to the FMEA process, task analysis, and heuristic evaluations.
8. Compare, contrast and address work-as-imagined and work-as-done.
9. Describe the factors that make a solution effective, sustainable, and feasible in healthcare.

Early Bird Registration (ends July 14, 2026): $1,195.00

General Registration (July 15 - September 13, 2026): $1,295.00

In support of improving patient care, MedStar Health is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE) and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

Credit Designation

This activity was planned by and for the healthcare team, and learners will receive 11.00 Interprofessional Continuing Education (IPCE) credits for learning and change.

Physicians: MedStar Health designates this live activity for a maximum of 11.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Nurses: This activity is approved for 11.00 ANCC contact hours. Nurses should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Pharmacists: This activity is approved for 11.00 contact hours. This learning activity is knowledge-based. The Universal Activity Number for this program is JA4008151-0000-26-032-L05-P.

Physician Assistants:

MedStar Health has been authorized by the American Academy of PAs (AAPA) to award AAPA Category 1 CME credit for activities planned in accordance with AAPA CME Criteria. This activity is designated for 11.00 AAPA Category 1 CME credits. PAs should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation.

AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ Physician (11.00 hours), IPCE (11.00 hours), Non-Physician Member of the Healthcare Team (11.00 hours), Nurse - ANCC (11.00 hours), Pharmacist - ACPE (11.00 hours), Physician Assistant - AAPA (11.00 hours)

 MedStar Health Central Office

 10980 Grantchester Way

 Conference Rooms 1 A-C, First Floor

 Columbia, MD 21044

 

 

 

 

Parking Information:

A parking garage is available on the premises and is free. Please park on floor three (3) or above.

Hotel Information:

A discounted room rate is available at the Merriweather Lakehouse, 10209 Wincopin Circle, Columbia, MD 21044. The Merriweather Lakehouse is located 1 mile from the MedStar Corporate Office. The booking link is provided in the registration confirmation email. Please reach out to Jacqueline Stark, [email protected], with questions.

Mitigation of Relevant Financial Relationships

MedStar Health adheres to the ACCME’s Standards for Integrity and Independence in Accredited Continuing Education.

Individuals in a position to control the content of this CE activity, including faculty, planners, reviewers, or others are required to disclose all financial relationships with ineligible companies. An ineligible company is any entity whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients. All of the relevant financial relationships listed below have been mitigated prior to the commencement of the activity.

The following Planning Committee Members and Faculty have Non-Clinical Exemptions: Lucy Bocknek, MS | Rebecca Butler, MA | Terry Fairbanks, MD, MS | Carole Hemmelgarn, MS, MS | Lubna Kousa, PharmD, MA, EM-CQSL | Seth Krevat, MD, FACP | Laura Lee, MS, BSN | Robin Littlejohn, MS | Kristen Miller, DrPH, CPPS | Raj Ratwani, PhD, MPH | Jacqueline Stark, MSM-PM, PMP | Zoe Pruitt, MA, CPHFH | Megan Walling, MSPAS, PA-C