Department of Medicine Quality Improvement Education Series
The Department of Medicine excited to offer a new Quality Improvement (QI) Education Series, designed to build practical QI skills for faculty, trainees, and staff.
Background
The UW Center for Scholarship in Patient Care Quality and Safety was founded in 2013 and has served the Pacific Northwest with training programs for quality improvement (QI) science for over a decade. This year, the long-running Certificate Program in QI and Patient Safety is taking a hiatus and the center will be focusing primarily on training needs in the Department of Medicine.
Our past interim chair, Dr. Trish Kritek, saw a need for ongoing training for faculty and staff who want to improve care quality and safety, study their interventions, and to share the results.
To fill this gap, the center will offer a series of webinars and workshops for Department of Medicine members who want to lead improvement work.
QI Education Series
The series will be taught by Drs. Andrew White and Lauge Sokol-Hessner (General Internal Medicine), drawing upon their experience with mentoring QI project leaders.
Attendees of the workshops will learn a 7-step method to QI project execution and will apply the techniques to project design through in-class exercises. Attendees of the webinars will learn skills needed to measure, analyze, and publish their QI work.
Live workshops will be offered multiple times and webinars will be recorded to make the series accessible.
“All of us witness problems with quality, safety, equity, and value in the clinical environment,” said White. “Lauge and I are excited to offer DOM members a process to define those problems and to develop interventions. For the DOM faculty already doing this type of work, we hope to help you disseminate your work.”
The long-term goal of this effort is to support and grow the community of improvers and innovators in the Department of Medicine, and to lower the barriers to publishing their work.
Learn more
To learn more about session topics, dates, and time, we encourage you to visit the program website.