A recorded lecture given by Dr. Nancy Kubiak, an Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Louisville. She is an Associate Program Director for the Internal Medicine Residency and is a managing clinician at the outpatient practices. Here, she discusses basics and walks through an approach to Quality Improvement in medicine. Some items in this lecture may have come from the lecturer’s personal academic files or have been cited in-line or at the end of the lecture.
Rationale: This recorded lecture provides fundamental information for Quality Improvement in a healthcare setting. Much of this material is given through the lens of the Plan Do Study Act (PDSA) approach to QI. Residents at the Wright Center for Graduate Medical Education are expected to complete a Community Oriented Primary Care (COPC) project, which seeks to provide a QI intervention to address population health needs. This module offers some tools to use when approaching this requirement, as well as the learners' own TWCGME-required PDSAs.
Any questions about this module or the COPC requirement at TWCGME can be directed to research@thewrightcenter.org or twc-committee-research@thewrightcenter.org
For questions about PDSAs, please contact your program faculty or coordinator.