Developing and Implementing a Quality Improvement Curriculum in a Large Internal Medicine Residency Program.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Residency programs face increasing expectations to grow competency in system-based practice and quality improvement (QI) among trainees. Organizations like the American Board of Internal Medicine and the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education have included QI knowledge in their recertification and accreditation requirements. We describe our experiences over a decade of sustaining a longitudinal experiential QI curriculum at a large Internal Medicine residency program.

Methods

Each resident participated in interactive seminars as well as a faculty-mentored, team-based QI project. Each project was formally evaluated at an end-of-year poster presentation.

Results

One hundred thirty-six projects were completed between 2007 and 2016. A presurvey

SUBMITTER: Kim K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11822811 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan-Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature