In our first meeting of the year, Dr. Nicholas Meo provided a wonderful introduction on how to get involved in quality improvement at the University of Washington, including how to scope out a project, identify mentors and find resources to help along the way. A summary of his talk can be found here.
There are also a number of helpful resources we highlighted in the meeting, listed below:
1. UW Center for Scholarship in Patient Care Quality and Safety
– Great opportunity to find mentorship
2. Institute for Healthcare Improvement
– National group with a variety of QI resources,
– Also offer Open School, an online curriculum on the basics of quality improvement work
3. QI Match
– Online access to dozens of UW QI projects looking for resident involvement
– Going live this year from GME
4. Harvard University edX
– Massive Open Online Course on QI
5. Coursera
– Massive Open Online Courses on QI
– Really good one from Johns Hopkins
6. BMJ Open Quality
– Open source journal of QI “case studies”
7. HQSC website
– Great way to get involved and learn more
July 2019 Meeting Recap