Provide Feedback |

Register

Commentary

Department of Veterans Affairs Chief Resident in Quality and Patient Safety Program: a model to spread change.

November 18, 2016

Watts B, Paull DE, Williams LC, et al. Am J Med Qual. 2016;31(6):598-600.

View more articles from the same authors.

Integrating system safety and quality improvement concepts into existing curriculum has been advocated as a strategy to prepare resident physicians for safety improvement work. This commentary describes a Veterans Affairs program to incorporate safety leadership and educational skills into graduate medical education.

PubMed citation

Related Resources From the Same Author(s)

Curriculum development and implementation of a national interprofessional fellowship in patient safety.

September 5, 2018

Wrong-side thoracentesis: lessons learned from root cause analysis.

August 2, 2015

Errors upstream and downstream to the Universal Protocol associated with wrong surgery events in the Veterans Health Administration.

July 16, 2015

Sharing lessons learned to prevent incorrect surgery.

November 21, 2012

Root cause analysis of reported patient falls in ORs in the Veterans Health Administration.

October 24, 2018

Anesthesia adverse events voluntarily reported in the Veterans Health Administration and lessons learned.

April 12, 2019

Root cause analyses of reported adverse events occurring during gastrointestinal scope and tube placement procedures in the Veterans Health Association.

March 25, 2020

Surgical programs in the Veterans Health Administration maintain briefing and debriefing following medical team training.

April 25, 2016

Root cause analysis reports help identify common factors in delayed diagnosis and treatment of outpatients.

August 21, 2013

How well do incident reporting systems work on inpatient psychiatric units?

December 21, 2018

View More

Related Resources

Analysis of the interprofessional clinical learning environment for quality improvement and patient safety from perspectives of interprofessional teams.

March 16, 2022

Graduate medical education's new focus on resident engagement in quality and safety: will it transform the culture of teaching hospitals?

July 3, 2016

Educational opportunities with postevent debriefing.

May 11, 2016

Chief resident for quality improvement and patient safety: a description.

May 10, 2016

Understanding the effect of resident duty hour reform: a qualitative study.

April 25, 2016

Creating a fellowship curriculum in patient safety and quality.

January 22, 2016

Graded autonomy in medical education—managing things that go bump in the night.

December 18, 2014

"Learning by Doing"—resident perspectives on developing competency in high-quality discharge care.

November 26, 2014

Academic year-end transfers of outpatients from outgoing to incoming residents: an unaddressed patient safety issue.

January 28, 2011

Practising safely in the foundation years.

April 22, 2009

View More

See More About The Topic

Quality and Safety Professionals

Hospital Medicine

To sign up for updates or to access your subscriber preferences, please enter your email address below.

5600 Fishers Lane
Rockville, MD 20857
Telephone: (301) 427-1364