The Quality Improvement curriculum at the University of Iowa is an integrated curriculum that incorporates workshops during the academic half day of the Y week and a year-long team-based quality improvement project designed and implemented by the Y week cohorts.
The University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics hosts an annual Quality and Safety Symposium in which our resident teams are given the opportunity, encouragement, resources, and mentorship to submit and present their projects. After this, many teams submit their projects to large regional and national meetings.
Since the development of our curriculum we have had…
- 50+ resident led QI Projects
- 30+ resident led QI Projects presented at our local Quality and Safety Symposium (link)
- 25 resdient teams presented oral presentation or posters at SGIM Midwest Regional Meeting
- 7 resident teams presented posters at SGIM National Meeting
Our groundbreaking curriculum was published in the Journal of Graduate medical Education.
Example QI projects:
- Naloxone prescription for opioid use disorder
- Hepatitis C screening
- Patient-Provider Communication – AVS summary use at the VA
- SGLT2 prescription for CKD