Providing Educational Content and Context for Training the Next Generation of Physicians in Quality Improvement

摘要

Amid calls for graduate medical education (GME) to better prepare a workforce that can address growing challenges in health care quality and cost, institutions must find ways to more effectively educate and engage housestaff in quality improvement (QI) initiatives. Although the benefits for trainees and institutions alike can be significant, creating and maintaining successful strategies has proven challenging. Multiple barriers (e.g., variable backgrounds and needs of trainees) have clouded the educational and clinical effectiveness of many efforts. Recent findings suggest that trainee engagement in QI is lacking and that contextual support for practice-based learning and systems-based practice is often suboptimal.