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Elective Title: 93ZI760 — QUIP: QUALITY IMPROVEMENT IN PRACTICE

Description:

This elective is designed for 3rd or 4th Year Medical students or combined MD/MBA students to gain skill and knowledge in Quality Improvement concepts, tools and techniques, including the opportunity to complete a hands-on Quality Improvement Project. This elective offers compelling reasons to embrace Quality Improvement in practice and in education. Students can choose a fully online experience or a hybrid in-person and online experience. Hybrid in-person students will spend approximately three days/week in an outpatient primary care clinical setting and two days/week online applying (using web-based simulation) Quality Improvement principles. After completing online learning modules to gain knowledge in Quality Improvement, students will use reflection to analyze past experiences in clinical and non clinical settings related to the knowledge and tools they have learned. Students then create a new application of the knowledge or tool in their own personal or professional development. Students who choose a hybrid experience can apply those skills in an outpatient primary care clinic. The summative project for the experience is a quality improvement project of the student's choosing. Previous projects have included improvements in student run clinical experiences, personal or professional growth and development, and community service projects.

Elective Details:

Primary Contact for Add/Drops: Deanna Willis, MD, MBA (drwillis@iupui.edu)

Director: Deanna Willis, M.D., M.B.A.

Campus: Indianapolis

Location: IUSM - Indianapolis (Hybrid in-person or fully online)

Other Faculty:

Learning Objectives

  • 1) Describe basic Quality Improvement principles (SBP5)
  • 2) Identify application of those Quality Improvement principles in a real life setting (SBP5)
  • 3) Collaboratively design and implement a Quality Improvement project in a healthcare setting using the previously learned principles (SBP5)
  • 4) Measure the impact of that Quality Improvement project (SBP5)

Assessment

  • Professional Development Evaluation Form; (Rubric based evaluation of reflective essays; Rubric based evaluation of summative quality improvement project.)

Enrollment Information

Prerequisites: 3rd or 4th year status

Availability with Max Students per Month:

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Duty Hours: 40

Time Distribution: Online version: 100% self-paced virtual activities; Hybrid version: 30% outpatient clinical PBLI, 70% self-paced virtual activities

Elective Type Category: PD - Professional Development

Notes and Enrollment Information:

Add/Drop Contact Person: Deanna Willis, MD, MBA (drwillis@iupui.edu) No housing provided. Indianapolis and online locations only.

Third Year Elective? Yes

Interprofessional Skills and Service Learning

Interprofessional Collaborative Skills: None

Service Learning Included: None