A Free Conference on Quality Improvement in Curriculums

[Katie @ IHI]

There’s a free 1 day conference on 10 Nov in Philly about the future of medical education---The program looks good, and it’s free to register: http://www.jefferson.edu/dhp/2020.cfm

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[Gumption]

The issue of quality improvement in medical education is a huge and important one. It's becoming a very hot topic in the medical education world right now, which means of course that there are resources (i.e. grant money) becoming available to do this type of work.

There are at least 2 issues here:

1) Using quality improvement tools to improve medical education; and
2) Incorporating the teaching of quality improvement science and tools into medical education.

If anyone is curious how students can contribute directly to improving the quality of health care in America, check the CLARION project that is hosted by the University of Minnesota, the IHI collaborative with medical schools, and a recent article in Safety and Quality in Health Care by a few students at the University of Chicago.

 

[USCguy]

I went to a press release today about a partnership between GE Healthcare and the Univ. of SC School of Medicine. GE donated $2 million of equipment to teach ultrasound for all 4 years of medical education. USC-SOM is the 1st med school in the nation to do this (this is a pilot study to see if it will improve diagnostics). The guy from GE that spoke said that in an initial study, med students who received 4 hours of lecture and then 14 hours of practice with the new ultrasound machines did better than some (don't remember) number of board certified cardiologists in diagnosing cardiac conditions in 61 cardiac patients. *I dont' have a citation for this*, it is what he said.

The idea is that as improvements are made in ultrasound and the machines get smaller, it will replace the stethoscope.

http://uscnews.sc.edu/RSRC302.html