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Career Development

Core Curriculum for Fellows

Medical Education

Quality Improvement/Patient Safety
Session Type: APA SIG

APA SIG: Quality Improvement | Are we there yet? Finding our way to better QI programs for trainees and faculty in healthcare organizations

Saturday, April 26, 2025
1:00pm – 2:30pm HST
Location: Convention Center: 308
CE: 1.5

    SIG Chair(s)

  • Nicholas Clark, MD

    Associate Professor of Pediatrics
    Children's Mercy Kansas City
    Kansas City, Missouri, United States

  • Courtney Nelson, MD

    Doctor
    Pediatrics- Emergency Medicine Division
    Nemours Children's Hospital
    Wilmington, Delaware, United States

  • JC

    John Chuo, MD, MS, IA (he/him/his)

    Professor
    Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
    Doylestown, Pennsylvania, United States

Disclosure(s):
Nicholas Clark, MD: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.
Courtney Nelson, MD: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.
John Chuo, MD, MS, IA: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.

Are we there yet? Finding our way to better QI programs for trainees and faculty in healthcare organizations.

A key tenet of quality improvement (QI) in healthcare organizations is a focus on continuous iterative improvements, but as we develop and implement QI programs, how do we know if we are on the right track? In this session we will describe key characteristics of successful QI programs for trainees and faculty in healthcare organizations; engage in an open-panel discussion with QI leaders; and offer the opportunity for attendees to dive deeper into these topics through small group discussions. Lastly, attendees will incorporate what they have learned into a roadmap to guide QI programming at their home institution.

Learning Objectives:

  • Describe key characteristics of successful quality improvement programs for trainees and faculty in healthcare organizations.
  • Compare and contrast key characteristics of successful quality improvement programs with those found at one’s own institution.
  • Develop an action plan to improve quality improvement programs for either trainees or faculty at one’s home institution.

Presentations:

  • 1:00pm – 1:10pm HST
    Welcome and Introductions

    SIG Speaker: Nicholas Clark, MD – Children's Mercy Kansas City

  • 1:10pm – 1:20pm HST
    Key Characteristics of Successful QI Programs

    SIG Speaker: Courtney Nelson, MD – Nemours Children's Hospital

  • 1:20pm – 1:40pm HST
    Pitfalls and Successes of QI Program Development

    SIG Speaker: Sandra P. Spencer, MD (she/her/hers) – Children's Hospital Colorado

  • 1:40pm – 2:00pm HST
    Moderated Panel of QI Leaders with Audience Live Q&A

    SIG Speaker: Shannon H. Baumer-Mouradian, MD – Medical College of Wisconsin

  • 2:00pm – 2:10pm HST
    QI Roadmap Action Plan Tool; Wrap up with Q&A

    SIG Speaker: John Chuo, MD, MS, IA (he/him/his) – Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania

  • 2:10pm – 2:30pm HST
    Develop QI Roadmap Action Plan for Home Institution

    SIG Speaker: Alison V. Holmes, alison.v.holmes@hitchcock.org (she/her/hers) – Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth