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All alone at the front of the caravan? Straggling Behind? Lead your team toward the oasis with a QI simulation
Workshop: APGO Fac Dev Seminar 2017
Healthcare educators are asked to develop proficiency in QI knowledge and skills but bothbecoming trained and training others are daunting prospects. This workshop takes teams through an adaptable rapid cycle QI simulation project.
Workshop Text: Continuous quality improvement (QI) is the goal of all of our endeavors and yet not one
we can achieve without our teams. Currently the AAMC, ACGME and ABOG all have expectations of QI
competency for students, residents and faculty. Despite availability of resources for training, many are
too intimidated or time constrained to begin to learn QI. In this workshop a QI simulation demonstrates
how the steps of a rapid cycle QI project engages learners in experiential QI application. This simulation
has been used with interprofessional groups along the educational continuum, here adapted for a
Womens health audience. You will participate in a simulated QI project acting on an adverse event
report. Teams will develop an aim statement, then choose from a menu of resources to learn about
relevant local and national data. Cause and effect diagrams and process mapping will be developed to
understand patient flow and where problems occur. Selected interventions will lead to outcome data for
your accelerated run chart (fast forwarding results). Plan Do Study Act cycles will revise interventions
with new data results. Prior to the workshop QI novices are encouraged to complete the (free) Institute
for Healthcare Improvement modules QI101 and 102. QI leaders will leave with a model QI simulation
adaptable for interprofessional learners of all backgrounds, modifiable to your clinical and educational
environments. QI novices will leave having participated in a rapid cycle QI simulation preparing you to
embark upon your own educational or clinical QI projects having utilized the tools of QI.
Topics:
Faculty Development Seminar, 2017, Systems-Based Practice & Improvement, GME, CME,
