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Pursuing Excellence: Interdepartmental Quality & Safety
Medium
Video with PPT, eLearning
Self-Evaluation & Pretest: 23 minutes
Video 1: 33 minutes || Video 2: 44 minutes || Video 3: 28 minutes
Self-Evaluation & Posttest: 23 minutes
Commercial Support
This CME certified activity has not requested or received any support or funding from commercial interests. This includes, but is not limited to, pharmaceutical companies and medical device manufacturers.
Target Audience
This activity has been designed for physicians and other healthcare professionals as an introduction to quality improvement and patient safety at University of Chicago Medicine.
Learning Objectives
At the conclusion of this activity, participants will be able to:
- State the basic principles of Quality Improvement and Patient Safety;
- Discuss both System Based Practice and Practiced Based Learning and Improvement milestones;
- Recall the definition of the Clinical Learning Environment;
- Identify seminal papers in healthcare quality and safety;
- Explain how to review hospital level clinical quality data in order to identify areas for improvement;
- Recite the Institute for Healthcare Improvement model for improvement;
- Identify quality leaders at University of Chicago Medicine;
- Describe how to use event reporting to identify patient safety issues in the hospital;
- Express how to complete a Ishikawa Fishbone diagram to evaluate an adverse event;
- Review methods in proactive risk assessment in quality and safety.
COURSE DIRECTORS
Vineet M. Arora, MD, MAPPHerbert T. Abelson Professor of Medicine
Assistant Dean for Scholarship and Discovery
Associate Chief Medical Officer-Clinical Learning Environment
Julie Oyler, MDAssociate Professor of Medicine
Associate Program Director, Internal Medicine Residency Program
Associate Medical Director, Resident Clinic, Primary Care Group
The University of Chicago
Anita Blanchard, MDProfessor of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Associate Dean, Graduate Medical Education/DIO
Selected Publications & Additional Resources
PLANNING COMMITTEE
Clinical Professor
NorthShore University Health Systems
Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics
The University of Chicago
Megan Miller, MD
Assistant Professor, Department of Surgery
Case Western Reserve University
Associate Professor of Medicine
Chief Medical Officer
Vice President, Clinical Effectiveness
Director of Clinical Effectiveness Analytics
Director of Risk Management & Patient Safety
DISCLOSURE DECLARATIONS
As a provider accredited by the ACCME, The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine asks everyone who is in a position to control the content of an education activity to disclose all relevant financial relationships with any commercial interest. The ACCME defines "relevant financial relationships" as financial relationships in any amount, occurring within the past 12 months, including financial relationships of a spouse or life partner, that could create a conflict of interest.
Additionally, he University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine asks Authors to identify investigational products or off-label uses of products regulated by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, at first mention and where appropriate in the content.
No individual in a position to control the content of this educational activity has any relevant financial relationships to disclose.
The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine designates this enduring material for a maximum of 2.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the participant to earn up to 2.5 MOC points in the American Board of Internal Medicine's (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. It is the CME activity provider's responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit.
Other healthcare professionals will receive a Certificate of Participation. For information on the applicability and acceptance of Certificates of Participation for educational activities certified for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ from organizations accredited by the ACCME, please consult your professional licensing board.
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