Enhancing leadership transitions in student-run clinics: a quality improvement initiative to standardise onboarding.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Onboarding inefficiencies in student-run healthcare organisations can lead to unclear role expectations, inconsistent knowledge transfer and disruptions in leadership transitions. This quality improvement (QI) initiative evaluates the implementation of a standardised operating procedure (SOP) within Street Medicine Detroit (SMD), a medical student-run clinic, to improve onboarding and leadership continuity.

Methods

A QI initiative was developed to create an SOP based on retrospective surveys from past leaders, identifying key organisational challenges. Post implementation surveys assessed the SOP's impact on onboarding effectiveness, role clarity and preparedness. The project followed a Plan-Do-Study-Act cycle to guide the intervention and evaluate outcomes.

SUBMITTER: Cohn H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12742171 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature