How to Improve
Improvement Stories
Tools
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How to Improve
As part of IHI's early work to incorporate the teaching of quality improvement into health professions curricula, eight knowledge domains were identified as essential core content that all health professions students should learn as part of their training.
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This clerkship associated with the University of Tennessee College of Medicine stresses concern for patient-centered care in a safe environment, while focusing on improving quality in the delivery of care.
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This presentation was given by Linda Headrick, MD, Senior Associate Dean, Education and Faculty Development, University of Missouri School of Medicine (Columbia, Missouri, USA), to the Council of Academic Societies of the Association of American Medical Colleges in March 2004. Educational goals, methods, content, and assessment for teaching quality improvement as part of medical education are described.
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Improvement Stories
Health professions students from the University of Missouri-Columbia made the winning presentation at the Clarion Interprofessional Team Case Competition with their applications of root cause and economic analyses of sentinel events and creative, team-based approaches to ensure future prevention of such events.
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At the University of Connecticut School of Medicine (Farmington, Connecticut, USA), a program known as Beginning to End (B to E) provides a unique opportunity for medical students to identify examples of less than optimal care and to suggest improvement strategies.
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Tools
The matrix is a conceptual framework used by residents and other clinicians to project an episode of care as an interaction between quality outcomes and the skills, knowledge, and attitudes (core competencies) necessary to affect those outcomes.
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The toolbox includes descriptions of assessment methods that can be used for evaluating residents in various medical specialties.
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Other
This document describes the projects facilitated by the IHI Health Professions Collaborative. The Collaborative includes schools of medicine, nursing, and pharmacy that have been implementing schoolwide quality curricula.
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