TY - JOUR
T1 - Quality improvement education incorporated as an integral part of critical care fellows training at the mayo clinic
AU - Kashani, Kianoush B.
AU - Ramar, Kannan
AU - Farmer, J. Christopher
AU - Lim, Kaiser G.
AU - Moreno-Franco, Pablo
AU - Morgenthaler, Timothy I.
AU - Dankbar, Gene C.
AU - Hale, Curt W.
N1 - Copyright:
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PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - Problem: The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education emphasizes quality improvement (QI) education in residency/ fellowship training programs. The Mayo Clinic Combined Critical Care Fellowship (CCF) program conducted a pilot QI education program to incorporate QI training as a required curriculum for the 2010-2011 academic year.Approach: CCF collaborated with the Mayo Quality Academy to customize and teach the existing Mayo Quality Fellows curriculum to the CCF fellows with the help of two quality coaches over five months starting July 2010. All fellows were to achieve Bronze and Silver certification prior to graduation. Silver required passing four written exams and submitting a health care QI project. Five projects were selected on the basis of the Impact-EffortPrioritization matrix, and DMAIC (Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, and Control) methodology was used to complete the projects. The primary outcome was to assess learners' satisfaction, knowledge, and skill transfer.Outcomes: All 20 fellows were Bronze certified, and 14 (70%) were Silver certified by the time of graduation. All five QI projects were completed and showed positive impacts on patient safety and care. Surveys showed improved learner satisfaction. Graduates felt the QI training improved their QI skills and employment and career advancement. The QI curriculum had appropriate content and teaching pace and did not significantly displace other important clinical core curriculum topics.Next Steps: The pilot was successfully implemented in the CCF program and now is in the fourth academic year as an established and integral part of the fellowship core curriculum.
AB - Problem: The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education emphasizes quality improvement (QI) education in residency/ fellowship training programs. The Mayo Clinic Combined Critical Care Fellowship (CCF) program conducted a pilot QI education program to incorporate QI training as a required curriculum for the 2010-2011 academic year.Approach: CCF collaborated with the Mayo Quality Academy to customize and teach the existing Mayo Quality Fellows curriculum to the CCF fellows with the help of two quality coaches over five months starting July 2010. All fellows were to achieve Bronze and Silver certification prior to graduation. Silver required passing four written exams and submitting a health care QI project. Five projects were selected on the basis of the Impact-EffortPrioritization matrix, and DMAIC (Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, and Control) methodology was used to complete the projects. The primary outcome was to assess learners' satisfaction, knowledge, and skill transfer.Outcomes: All 20 fellows were Bronze certified, and 14 (70%) were Silver certified by the time of graduation. All five QI projects were completed and showed positive impacts on patient safety and care. Surveys showed improved learner satisfaction. Graduates felt the QI training improved their QI skills and employment and career advancement. The QI curriculum had appropriate content and teaching pace and did not significantly displace other important clinical core curriculum topics.Next Steps: The pilot was successfully implemented in the CCF program and now is in the fourth academic year as an established and integral part of the fellowship core curriculum.
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U2 - 10.1097/ACM.0000000000000398
DO - 10.1097/ACM.0000000000000398
M3 - Article
C2 - 24988421
AN - SCOPUS:84910130945
SN - 1040-2446
VL - 89
SP - 1362
EP - 1365
JO - Academic Medicine
JF - Academic Medicine
IS - 10
ER -