Ep 66: Five Things About Human Factors in Healthcare With Dr Mia McLanders

In this episode Liz and Jesse are joined by Dr Mia McLanders, research manager at Clinical Skills Development Service Queensland. Mia trained in psychology and moved into research and practice specialising in human factors and ergonomics in healthcare. This moves from introduction to deep dive in understanding what impacts the way we work. A longer episode for us, but not a minute is wasted!

Mia’s Five Things:

1. Human factors and ergonomics, an origin story.
2. Why “human factors” is a terrible name.
3. Expect the unexpected. Dealing with variability.
4. Why humans are our greatest asset in imperfect systems.
5. How do we use human factors principles to improve our work?