Graduate Medical Education

Patient Safety

 

Plan to attend:

SUMMER INSTITUTES ON EVIDENCE-BASED QUALITY IMPROVEMENT

July 9-13, 2013;

Specialty Pre-Conferences:  July 10, 2013

at the Grand Hyatt Hotel, San Antonio, TX 

For more information: www.acestar.uthscsa.edu

 

Highlights:

  • Improvement Science Summit on Research Methods
  • Specialty Pre-Conferences
    • Educators’ EBP Workshop®
    • TeamSTEPPS
    • Essential Elements: An Introduction to Evidence-Based Practice
  • Summer Institute on Evidence-Based Practice

 


IHI Open School Courses

 

Register for IHI using the following information.  

Residents:

Enter your role as Resident

Organization is ‘School – Medicine’

In ‘Please click here to select your organization’, enter

University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio

United States

Texas

San Antonio

Your primary role is ‘Intern – Resident’

Faculty:

For Faculty to access the IHI Open School courses for free they will need to select ‘Teacher/Professor’ as their Primary Role.

 

 

Patient Safety Links



 

AAMC Joining Forces initiative - under construction

Click on the link above to access resources for handling military medical/cultural issues.

 

Picker Institute ‘Always Events’

 

Implementing the Patient-Centered Medical Home

 

Mayo Clinic Quality Academy Educational Resources

 

UTHSCSA's Center for Patient Safety and Health Policy

Patient Safety and Supervision Card

 

Patient Safety - ER Safe Surgery Checklist

AMA Patient Safety Webinars

 

JAMA, 304, Issue 11

 

Patient Safety and Medical Errors - TMA online course

 

 

Quality Improvement Links



How to Report Medical Errors and Near Misses

UHS

VA

MARC

CSR

SAMMC/WHASC

Transitions in Care

Example of a bad hand-off

Example of a good hand-off

Resources from Pritzker School of Medicine, University of Chicago

Supervision video

 

"Strategies to Improve Trainee Supervision"
Powerpoint

 

SUPERB/SAFETY study published in Journal on Graduate Medical Education

 

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Patient Safety & Medical Errors

 

Anesthesiology Patient Safety Foundation
Patient Safety Video Library

 

Institute for Healthcare Improvement:

IHI Open School GME Interest Group

The IHI Open School contains online modules on patient safety, quality improvement, and leadership - all are available to members of the UTHSCSA through the Open School Chapter here.

IHI-White Papers Section

IHI’s Innovation Series white papers were developed to further its mission of improving the quality and value of health care. The ideas and findings in these white papers represent innovative work by organizations affiliated with IHI. White papers are designed to share with readers the problems IHI is working to address; the ideas, changes, and methods we are developing and testing to help organizations make breakthrough improvements; and early results where they exist.

 

The LIFE Curriculum

 

Patient Safety listserv

If you are interested in subscribing to this listserve, click listServ@www.listserv.va.gov

and paste SubscribeMDTeachPtSafety-L@www.ListServ.va.gov in the main body of the message.

Alternatively, you can notify PSCurric@va.gov with a request to add your email address to the list.

To send a message to the group, address your email to MDTeachPtSafety-L@www.ListServ.va.gov.