Medical Education 2011: 45: 1081–1089 Context Effective handover within the health care
setting is vital to patient safety. Despite published literature discussing strategies to improve …

Background Patient safety training of healthcare professionals is a new area of education.
Assessment of the pertinent competencies should be a part of this education. This review …

Educators have struggled with the best ways to teach the knowledge and skills of quality
improvement to medical students. Dartmouth Medical School has a decade of experience …

Background Quality improvement (QI) education in residency training is important and
necessary for accreditation. Although the literature on this topic has been growing, some …

Instruction on quality improvement (QI) methods is required as part of residency education;
however, there is limited evidence regarding whether internal medicine residents can …

The purpose of this article is to briefly review the history of how quality and safety have been
addressed in the United States by those who have been teaching medical students and …

Purpose Incorporating quality improvement (QI) into resident education and clinical care is
challenging. This report explores key characteristics shaping the relative success or failure …

BACKGROUND: Quality improvement and population medicine are skills that are
increasingly important for physicians to possess. Methods to achieve foundational …

Children's hospitals and their affiliated departments of pediatrics often pursue separate
programs in quality and safety; by integrating these programs, they can accelerate progress …

THERE IS INHERENT value in both engaging resident physicians in system-level
improvement efforts and teaching quality improvement to these learners during their training …