Shaping a Culture for Continuous Quality Improvement in Undergraduate Medical Education.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

This study sought to identify key features of an organizational quality culture and explore how these features contribute to continuous quality improvement of undergraduate medical education.

Method

Between July and December 2018, researchers from Maastricht University in the Netherlands conducted a multicenter focus group study among 6 education quality advisory committees. Participants were 22 faculty and 18 student representatives affiliated with 6 medical schools in the Netherlands. The group interviews focused on quality culture characteristics in relation to optimizing educational development, implementation, evaluation, and (further) improvement. Template analysis, a stepwise type of thematic analysis, was applied to analyze the data.

Results

Five main

SUBMITTER: Bendermacher GWG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7678663 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature