Nexus Summit Workshop 10

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    Workshop #10: Quality Improvement & Leadership Development for Residents Leading Interprofessional Teams

    Thomas Jefferson University

    Nexus Innovation Network

    Presentation; 

    Quality Improvement and Leadership Development for Residents Leading Interprofessional Teams

    Presenters:

    Christine Arenson, Patrick McManus, Marianna Lanoue, Katherine Land, Amy Cunningham & Colleen Payton

    Topics:

    Linking outcomes to reducing costs in health care and/or education

    Promoting Teamwork, Patient Safety and Quality Improvement in IPE

    Overview:

    Today, a need exists for graduate medical education, interprofessional (IPE) practice, and education strategies to formally align, particularly as students matriculate into post-graduate education programs. Jefferson Family Medicine Associates (JFMA) and Jefferson Internal Medicine Associates (JIMA) are two primary care patient-centered medical homes (PCMHs) that serve a racially and economically diverse area of Philadelphia. In addition to medical residents, teams include medical assistants, physician assistant students, nurses, nursing students, and medical students. The JFMA and JIMA Residency Programs have strong quality improvement (QI) curricula and meet the Accreditation Council on Graduate Medical Education requirements. However, these curricula do not yet fully incorporate key principles of IPE teamwork and collaborative practice characteristics of the highest functioning PCMHs. This reality gives the impression that physicians need to take on ever greater personal responsibility for more tasks rather than working effectively with IPE teams. Further, medical residents often do not learn project management skills or fully develop their leadership potential over the course of their training.

    This workshop will explore the Jefferson approach to laying the groundwork for a QI and leadership development toolkit designed to increase IPE team skills. The ultimate goal of the toolkit is to enable practices to provide better care for individual patients and patient populations, while simultaneously increasing efficiency and positively impacting triple aim outcomes. Measurable outcomes include residents’ improved self-efficacy related to leadership and project management, increased clinic efficiency, increased number of QI projects initiated by IPE teams, and improved triple aim health outcomes for Philadelphia residents.

    Learner Objectives:

    1. Explain how teaching QI and leadership to residents can support IPE and practice outcomes;

    2. Strategize how already strong residency programs can create new educational objectives, and practical skills in the development of a QI and leadership toolkit.

    3. Adapt a draft plan for implementing IPE training and curriculum to use in their own institutions.