QUALITY IMPROVEMENT
Our Quality Improvement Curriculum
Our program has a new robust and longitudinally-integrated quality improvement (QI) curriculum that engages residents in QI projects during each year of residency. Recognizing that QI and improvement science are now essential concepts and skills to provide team-based, high-quality, equitable, safe, and effective patient care, we have developed a new longitudinal QI curriculum designed to educate residents on core health care quality and QI concepts as they pertain to both population health and direct clinical practice. We actively engage residents in practical personal and systems-level improvement projects. In these structured projects residents take leadership roles within their home clinics to develop critical administrative, team-based, and informatics skills to design and implement successful QI projects.
Our Vision…
To prepare residents to become leaders in clinical QI to improve patient outcomes, promote health equity, and enhance population health through 1) engaging in meaningful improvement work each year of training, 2) applying improvement science concepts and skills through executing longitudinal clinic-based quality improvement projects, and 3) demonstrating competencies in team-based care, self-directed learning, utilization of technology to improve care, and improve systems in which physicians provide care.
R1 Year
Wellness Improvement Project
Institute of Healthcare Improvement QI educational modules
Spring QI Didactic Series
R2/R3 Year
Clinical Quality Improvement project
Spring QI Didactic Series
ABFM Performance Improvement Module
Presentation and publication of clinical QI project
Supporting Our Residents
Our program has two faculty members dedicated to our quality improvement curriculum who also work closely with the residents throughout the year on the design and implementation of each QI project. Along with resident’s individual academic project, the QI project serves as one of the major non-clinical educational experiences during the second and third years. Residents are provided with protected time to work both individually and in partnership with each other on their clinic QI project throughout the year.
Dr. Daniel Ruegg, Milwaukic Clinic Faculty
Dr. Ben Pederson, Southeast Clinic Faculty