Quality Improvement Pathway
The Quality Improvement Pathway helps residents to develop skills to take a more active role in leading health system efforts in quality improvement and patient safety (QIPS). The curriculum supplements our standard QI curriculum and focuses on identifying challenges in system-based practices and working collaboratively to drive system-level solutions to improve patient outcomes.
This 24-month pathway is open to all residents in the Internal Medicine program in their second and third years. Residents in this pathway meet with our Chief Quality & Risk Officer and staff along with physician QI champions and health system administrators to build QIPS skills. Pathway activities are focused on the resident’s areas of interest in QIPS and include:
- QIPS elective (two-week elective in PGY2 and PGY3 year)
- Supplementary QI education and discussion with QA leadership
- Advanced IHI modules
- Early identification, planning, and implementing a QI capstone project over the course of the residency, with presentation to the Board of Directors at the end of the third year
- Submit scholarly work to a QIPS conference or journal
- Participating on hospital or ambulatory QIPS-related committees
- Participating in institutional RCAs
- Participating in select multispecialty M&Ms
- Share any QIPS-related issues identified during M&Ms with the Quality Department and collaboratively work to address them
- Engage in safety event reporting and analysis
- Focus on high value care at select Morning Report and Journal Club sessions
- Mentorship by QA institutional leadership
