Sustainability in Action: A Financial Incentive for Trainees Embracing Environmentally Friendly Quality Improvement Projects.

ABSTRACT: Background Engaging and motivating busy trainees to work on reducing the climate impact of their clinical practice is challenging. To our knowledge, there are no published studies of graduate medical education (GME)-wide, institutional efforts to engage residents in implementing climate sustainability improvement projects. Objective We piloted a novel, institution-wide, pay-for-performance (P4P) sustainability quality improvement (SusQI) program in 2023-2024 that enabled residents from all GME programs to implement SusQI projects with practice-changing improvement goals for a financial incentive. Methods Project leaders were provided an opportunity to implement a project by identifying a SusQI problem and collaborating with stakeholders toward meeting environmentally f

SUBMITTER: Chen EH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11644596 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature