GME 204: Aligning Graduate Medical Education with Organizational Quality & Safety Goals

Overview

In this course, we’ll present innovative strategies that training programs around the country are using to engage health care workers with their organization’s quality improvement and patient safety efforts. These change ideas will help Designated Institutional Officials and other GME leaders collaborate with quality leaders to build programs that will be attractive to health care workers and offer tangible opportunities for experiential learning.

Course Objectives

After completing this course, you will be able to:

1. Describe three different models for experiential learning, and list several pros and cons of each.
2. State at least two examples of institutional quality improvement and patient safety committees of formal activities that would provide good experiential learning for health care workers.
    

Estimated Time of Completion: 1 hour 15 minutes

Continuing Education Credits

Course completion typically earns 1.25 Continuing Education credits. Please read the full details to ensure that this course offers your desired credit type. Learn more about Continuing Education credits

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In support of improving patient care, the Institute for Healthcare Improvement is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

This course is approved to provide 1.25 credits for physicians, nurses, Certified Professional in Patient Safety (CPPS) recertification, and MOC for the boards listed below.

Lifelong Learning (MOC Part 2 CME)

• American Board of Anesthesiology (ABA)
• American Board of Allergy & Immunology (ABAI)
• American Board of Colon & Rectal Surgery (ABCRS)
• American Board of Pathology (ABPath)
• American Board of Psychiatry & Neurology (ABPN)
• American Board of Plastic Surgery (ABPS)
• American Board of Nuclear Medicine (ABNM)
• American Board of Thoracic Surgery (ABTS)
• American Board of Urology (ABU)

Self-Assessment (MOC Part 2 SA)

• American Board of Family Medicine (ABFM) (5pts)*
• American Board of Ophthalmology (ABOP)
• American Board of Orthopedic Surgery (ABOS)
• American Board of Radiology (ABR)
• American Board of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (ABPMR)

Note: American Board of Pediatrics (ABPed) approval is pending.

*To receive ABFM MOC Part 2 SA, learners must complete GME 201, GME 202, GME 203, and GME 204.