Meeting Resident Scholarly Activity Requirements Through a Longitudinal Quality Improvement Curriculum.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Quality improvement (QI) skills are learned during residency, yet there are few reports of the scholarly activity outcomes of a QI curriculum in a primary care program.

Intervention

We examined whether scholarly activity can result from a longitudinal, experiential QI curriculum that involves residents, clinic staff, and faculty.

Methods

The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Shadyside Family Medicine Residency implemented a required longitudinal outpatient practice improvement rotation (LOPIR) curriculum in 2005. The rotation format includes weekly multidisciplinary work group meetings alternating with resident presentations delivered to the entire program. Residents present the results of a literature review and provide 2 interim project updates to t

SUBMITTER: Simasek M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4507935 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature