Quality and Safety Advanced Competency

The Advanced Competency in Quality and Safety for pediatric residents fosters and encourages interest in enhancing the patient experience, improving population health, and reducing health care costs by improving the quality and safety of patient care. This will be accomplished through experiential learning, seminars, mentoring, and active engagement in scholarly activities.

Goals

  • Provide in-depth learning and hands-on experience on how to improve quality and safety for patients.
  • Develop residents who are well prepared to embark on a career that incorporates meaningful quality and safety activities

Objectives

Through participation in this program, residents will be able to:

  • Demonstrate fundamental knowledge of key concepts necessary to create and maintain a robust quality and safety program.
  • Participate in design, implementation, and leading of a quality improvement and/or safety initiative in partnership with a faculty mentor.
  • Critically evaluate evidence-based literature in pediatric quality and safety research.
  • Effectively disseminate scholarly activity results at a local and/or national meeting.
  • Demonstrate ability to contribute to publication of a quality and safety scholarly activity in an academic journal.

Assessments

  • Direct assessment by faculty mentor and advanced competency program director.
  • Self-assessment in quality improvement and patient safety milestones at beginning and end of program.
  • Presentation of quality and safety scholarly activity at local and/or national meeting.
  • Optional: Quality and safety manuscript ready for submission in a peer-reviewed academic journal.
  • Post-graduation assessment at one, two, and five years to assess ongoing quality and safety activities.

Learning Methods

  • Regular attendance at local NCH quality and safety committee meetings (to be determined based on individual interests of the resident)
  • Selected readings, online IHI Modules, NCH resources to complement curriculum
  • Annual quality and safety retreat with devoted didactics and discussions
  • Experiential learning through active role in a local quality and safety initiative
  • Regular one-on-one mentorship meetings with trained faculty mentor
  • Additional meetings and/or dinners devoted to quality and safety career planning

Program Requirements:

Commitment:

  • Must complete formal commitment to the program
  • Begin with at least 18 months remaining in training program

Mentoring:

  • Establish a mentor within 3 months of commitment to the program
  • Quarterly meetings with faculty mentor, mentors should have record of quality and safety work at NCH and be approved NCH QI project leaders
  • Conduct a semi-annual review with advanced competency program director

Academic Engagement:

  • Regular attendance at resident preferred NCH quality and safety meetings
  • Peer review quality and safety manuscripts submitted to an academic journal with guidance from a faculty mentor

Research/Scholarly Work Product:

  • Project proposal, must be approved by program faculty and faculty mentor
  • Submission of project abstract at local and/or national meeting
  • Optional: Academic manuscript submission to academic journal

Program Faculty