CLINICAL PROCESS IMPROVEMENT (CPI) - TEAM WORKSHOP
Session Description: Practicing and reinforcing safety skills are key elements in effective learning. A longitudinal team-based approach is employed in patient safety education in InFOCUS. It is through practice and reinforcement during the clinical clerkships and these CPI team workshops that medical students begin to appreciate common situations facing patients that can only be learned through experience and discussion. Nolan and colleagues have devised a simple and elegant model for achieving changes that are improvements. Nolan's model comprises three basic questions and a fourth element that describes a cycle for testing innovations. 1) What are we trying to accomplish? 2) How will I know if a change leads to an improvement? 3) What changes could we make that we think will result in improvement? 4) The plan-do-study-act (PDSA) cycle describes, in essence, inductive learning - the growth of knowledge through making changes and then reflecting on the consequences of those changes. This group activity will build on work done in prior IF sessions and advance the work by identifying processes for improvement.
Time: 10:30am-12pm
Learning Objectives: At the end of this session, the student learners will:
- Follow general outline for presentation, including identifying group spokesperson, reviewing feedback from IF6, improving upon process map, look at opportunities for safety/waste, and brainstorm two solutions
- Review evaluation process for presentations
Pre-Session Assignments: NONE