61 - COVIDCast #12 - Adapting to the Unique Safety Concerns of COVID-19

This episode was created for The Perelman School of Medicine’s online Health Systems curriculum for second-year clerkship students. In it, third-year medical student Casey Kim (who was previously featured on the Podcast for her work with POHPS and creating COVIDigests) and I interviewed Caryn Douma and Cynthia Line. Caryn is Corporate Director of Patient Safety for Penn Medicine, and Cynthia is the Senior Improvement Advisor for Clinical Effectiveness Quality Improvement. In the episode, we discuss how the health system has responded to the COVID pandemic to ensure both patients and healthcare workers are as safe as they can be. Caryn and Cynthia share a few examples of how they have adapted to unique safety concerns due to COVID, and what lessons they’ve had to rapidly learn in the last few months. We hope you enjoy this conversation with Caryn Douma and Cynthia Line. Footnotes Caryn Douma’s LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/caryn-douma-0398a021/ Cynthia Line’s LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/cynthialinephd/detail/photo/