Quality Improvement

Interns

The making healthcare SAFER (MHCS) course

Course designed to decrease preventable medical errors, improve quality of healthcare, and promote teamwork in an inter-specialty, inter-professional manner during orientation.

• Learn best practices for infection prevention, quality, and teamwork in healthcare delivery
• Integrate asepsis into daily hospital activities and safety awareness. Interns participate in stations to address asepsis techniques and reinforcement of concepts of Handwashing repetition. They also participate in safety simulation to measure the participant's ability to identify patient safety concerns. Interns learn how to report and re-mediate these concerns by reporting on the Safety online system.

Making Central Lines SAFER course

• Initial knowledge based course.
• Simulated competency
• Residents who have successfully completed both courses may place central lines under direct supervision until deemed competent for procedure credentialing privileges.

Residents

• Residents engage in team-based, longitudinal quality improvement projects, which culminate in the Department of Medicine's QI Symposium. At this event, 17 posters are presented, showcasing the outcomes of these projects. Awards are given for Best Overall Project, Best Inpatient Project, Best Outpatient Project, and QI CHampion, recognizing exceptional contributions to improving care quality. 
• Additionally, residents participate in monthly Morbidity and Mortality conferences where they conduct root cause analyses to understand and address adverse outcomes. They also take part in hospital-wide root cause analyses, contributing to broader efforts to enhance patient safety and care quality.