Topics and Schedule
CURRICULUM TOPICS AND EXAMPLE SCHEDULE
What is Quality and Patient Safety?
- Care must be safe
- Care must be effective and reliable
- Care must be patient centered
- Care must be timely
- Care must be efficient
- Care must be equitable
- Quality improvement and pay-for-performance
Introduction to Quality Improvement (Dr. Richard Banchs)
- Why?
- What are the basics?
- How to choose a QI project?
- What is the framework of a QI project?
- Why is this important at the resident physician level?
- What is the role of a sponsor?
How to design and implement a QI project: the nuts and bolts (Dr. Ari Rubenfeld)
- PDSA cycle
- RCA
- Fishbone diagrams
- Pareto charts
NSQIP (Dr. Ari Rubenfeld)
- How a big database works
- How to use the data
Medical Legal aspects related to providing surgical care (Hospital Department Attorney)
Risk Management (Rhonda Perna, Chief of Risk Management)
- Presentation from this department on who they are and the role they serve at UI Health
- Remove the stigma
- Review patient safety event reporting here and what the follow-up steps entail
UI Health Culture of Safety & Current Initiatives (Jodie Joyce, Chief Quality Officer)
- UI Health culture of safety
- Current QI initiatives within our system
Teamwork in the hospital setting (Shelly Major, CNO)
- Identify necessary elements to achieve teamwork
- Identify effective team leadership qualities