1. An experiential learning collaborative on quality improvement for interprofessional learners
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Julie Ann Justo, Donna D. Ray, Christopher W Goodman, Elizabeth Ramsey, Phillip J. Prest, and Cindy Merrow
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Medical education ,Quality management ,030504 nursing ,business.industry ,Interprofessional Relations ,Mentors ,MEDLINE ,Problem-Based Learning ,General Medicine ,Quality Improvement ,Experiential learning ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Health care ,Humans ,Curriculum ,030212 general & internal medicine ,0305 other medical science ,business ,Psychology - Abstract
Growing evidence supports the need to teach future healthcare practitioners the fundamentals of quality improvement (QI), but curricula rarely include opportunities to apply QI principles or develop relevant teamwork skills. We initiated a program in 2017 called QUEST to engage our learners in interprofessional health care improvement through a 7-month learning collaborative. QUEST pairs learners with mentors in clinical QI teams and provides structured content, tasks, and feedback. The model is intentionally experiential, intended to use existing expertise and opportunities in the clinical learning environment to support QI training. Three cohorts of health professions learners have completed QUEST (n = 45), resulting in 27 unique quality improvement projects and poster presentations. QI knowledge, as measured by the QIKAT-R, increased from 5.48 to 6.34 on a 9-point scale (
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- 2021
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