Fundamentals of human factors in healthcare - 29 January 2026
Enhance your understanding of how human factors influence behaviour.
Fundamentals of Human Factors in healthcare is a one-day interactive workshop designed to build your knowledge of human factors and how they influence behaviour in the healthcare workplace. By understanding the effects of teamwork, tasks, working environment and organisational culture on human behaviour, you will be better equipped to work productively to enhance clinical performance and patient care.
Whether you’re new to human factors, or looking to enhance your understanding in order to lead and manage more effectively, this CPD-accredited session offers a practical and structured approach to human factors for all healthcare professionals working at all levels and in all specialties.
During this one-day human factors workshop, you will learn why things go wrong in healthcare and the importance of decision-making, systems factors and situational awareness. A consideration of the role played by hierarchy, and the need for mutual performance monitoring, will lead into an exploration of the way human factors impact communication and teamwork in the workplace. A focus on the value of ‘teaming’ will enable learning of how to maximise productive collaboration in order to limit and prevent negative impacts.
This course will enable learners to:
- define human factors
- explain why things go wrong in the healthcare workplace
- apply a decision-making model
- identify systems factors
- define situational awareness
- explain mutual performance monitoring
- define what makes an effective team
- justify the value of teaming activities
- evaluate team dynamics in the context of team development
- describe a shared model for communication that will aid effectiveness in the workplace
- recognise the impact of incivility.
This workshop is open to doctors of all grades and specialties as well as allied health professionals.
Date
29 January 2026
CPD credits
5 credits
Location
Royal College of Physicians of London, 11 St Andrews Place, London, NW1 4LE
29 January 2026
Member Rate : £200
Non-Member Rate : £290
Royal College of Physicians of London