GME 205: Aligning Graduate Medical Education with Organizational Quality & Safety Goals
GME 205: 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 residents in institution-wide quality improvement and patient safety (QI/PS) efforts. This toolbox of change ideas will help you or your institution’s quality leaders build successful collaborations between existing QI/PS infrastructures and graduate medical education (GME) programs.
Course Objectives
After completing this course, you will be able to:
- List and describe four change ideas that are being implemented in training programs around the country to accelerate QI/PS education at the graduate medical education level.
- Discuss the cultural shift that is occurring, in which organizations are focusing on root cause analysis and systemic improvement as opposed to placing individual blame.
- Suggest at least two reasons why trainee participation in institutional QI/PS activities and committees is critical.
Estimated Time of Completion: 1 hour
Continuing Education Credits
Course completion typically earns 1 Continuing Education credit. 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 health care team.
The Institute for Healthcare Improvement designates this internet enduring activity for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
This activity is approved to award 1 credit(s) toward Certified Professional in Patient Safety (CPPS) recertification.
This activity/program is approved by NAHQ® for 1 CPHQ CE credit.
Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the participant to earn up to:
- 1 Medical Knowledge MOC point(s) in the American Board of Internal Medicine's (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program
- 1 MOC point(s) in the American Board of Pediatrics' (ABP) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program
- 1 point(s) in the CME component of the American Board of Anesthesiology's redesigned Maintenance of Certification in AnesthesiologyTM (MOCA®) program, known as MOCA 2.0®. (Please consult the ABA website, www.theABA.org, for a list of all MOCA 2.0 requirements.)
- 1 point(s) in the American Board of Ophthalmology's Maintenance of Certification program. It is the CME activity provider's responsibility to submit learner completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting MOC credit.
Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the learner to satisfy the Lifelong Learning requirements for the American Board of Ophthalmology's Maintenance of Certification program.
Successful completion of this activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, offers Lifelong Learning (MOC Part 2 CME) point(s) for the following boards:
- 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)
Successful completion of this activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, offers Self-Assessment (MOC Part 2 SA) point(s) for the following boards:
- American Board of Family Medicine (ABFM) (15pts)*
- American Board of Pediatrics (ABPed) (20pts)*
- American Board of Ophthalmology (ABOP)
- American Board of Orthopedic Surgery (ABOS)
- American Board of Radiology (ABR)
- American Board of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (ABPMR)
*ABPed and ABFM diplomates are required to complete all the selected courses within an activity to collect MOC activity points.
It is the CME activity provider's responsibility to submit learner completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting MOC credit.
By attending GME 205 offered by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement participants may earn up to 1 ACHE Qualifying Education Hours toward initial certification or recertification of the Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives (FACHE) designation.
Subscriptions
This course is available in the following IHI Open School subscriptions: