Quality improvement (QI) is an organization-wide effort involving
health care professionals at every level including academic faculty and
clinical trainees. In this interactive session we will describe how to
engage academic faculty in scholarly activities regarding the science of
quality improvement and patient safety. We will also describe
strategies for aligning academic departments and divisions with
institutional quality and safety goals. Finally, participants will learn
from faculty who are successfully teaching students and residents
across the health professions to improve clinical care together.
At the end of this session, participants will be able to:
- Understand how to improve alignment between institutional quality and safety priorities and those of clinical training programs
- Structure faculty, resident and student training programs to more effectively deliverquality and safety lessons
- Learn about HMC’s efforts to provide quality and safety training to its clinical trainees
Speaker:Kedar Mate, MD
Faculty, IHI
