Teaching internal medicine residents to sustain their improvement through the quality assessment and improvement curriculum.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Although sustainability is a key component in the evaluation of continuous quality improvement (CQI) projects, medicine resident CQI projects are often evaluated by immediate improvements in targeted areas without addressing sustainability. AIM/SETTING: To assess the sustainability of resident CQI projects in an ambulatory university-based clinic.

Program description

During their ambulatory rotation, all second year internal medicine residents use the American Board of Internal Medicine's Clinical Preventive Services (CPS) Practice Improvement Modules (PIM) to complete chart reviews, patient surveys, and a system survey. The residents then develop a group CQI project and collect early post data. Third year residents return to evaluate their original CQI project

SUBMITTER: Oyler J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3019318 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature