Improving Graduate Medical Education, the Sequel
Last modified by Jeffrey Wetherhold on Wednesday, Jan 30, 2013
Last month
we shared a copy of our report on Embedding Quality Improvement in Medical Education.
The research, which was conducted in 2011, explored the infrastructural barriers to integrating quality improvement and safety principles in medical education with a focus on inpatient and acute settings. The research went on to influence a number of IHI's projects and partners. It also led to a great follow up question: What about primary care?
In the fall of 2012 our innovation team chartered a follow up project to tackle this question. Their goal was to build on the case studies and examples from the previous cycle to identify best practices in the ambulatory care setting and use these to refine our theory about how to successfully integrate quality improvement education. In particular, the team was interested in the pressures felt by academic ambulatory care practices around the quality and safety skills that are needed to prepare a new generation of practitioners for primary care practice amidst a rapidly changing landscape in the US. Some of the key questions that emerged were:
- How are trainees (and their programs) involved in teams to transform primary care?
- What is the role of the resident (trainee) on transformed primary care teams?
- How did the residency (education) structure change to facilitate practice transformation?
Now that this project has been completed
we are pleased to be able to share our report on IHI.org.
The final recommendations include an emphasis on team-based practice and interprofessional learning, developing leadership skills, and professionalism within and across care settings. We hope it is helpful to anyone working in this area or interested in IHI's most recent learning.
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