Enhancing resident education by embedding improvement specialists into a quality and safety curriculum.

Kathryn L Levy; Katie Grzyb; Lauren A Heidemann; Debra Burke Paliani; Christopher Grondin; Gabriel Solomon; Elizabeth Spranger; Tammy Ellies; David Ratz; Nathan Houchens

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Enhancing resident education by embedding improvement specialists into a quality and safety curriculum.

July 12, 2023

Levy KL, Grzyb K, Heidemann LA, et al. J Grad Med Educ. 2023;15(3):348-355.

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The quality improvement and patient safety (QIPS) curriculum is increasingly being added to resident education, but implementation and quality of these programs varies. In this study, continuous improvement specialists (CIS) were embedded in resident teams to create an A3, a quality improvement tool. A key component to the QIPS curriculum was aligning resident projects with quality improvement efforts already underway in the department.

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