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Customised knowledge-sharing platform to foster resident quality improvement activities, tracking and scholarship

Katherine A Rowe et al. BMJ Open Qual. 2024.

Abstract

Introduction: Meeting accreditation requirements to train resident physicians in quality improvement (QI) may require more than education. Barriers to resident QI engagement underscore the need to demonstrate the impact and value of resident QI work. It is not known whether a platform to track and publicise resident QI projects and scholarship is feasible or acceptable to implement within a residency programme. We aimed to create a searchable online platform and associated programming to promote resident QI work.

Methods: This intervention targeted resident physicians in an internal medicine residency training programme at a tertiary, academic medical centre. We designed an intervention to track resident QI and related scholarship in a searchable online platform, including practical details of implementing each project. Newsletters and events were used to publicise these project profiles.

Results: During the 2020-2021 academic year, 104 projects were profiled from 238 sourced projects. Average readership was 31.5% across 11 newsletters sent to residents and key faculty.

Discussion: A platform to track and share resident QI work and scholarship can be feasibly and acceptably implemented within a residency programme, serving as a novel way to engage residents around QI.

Keywords: Accreditation; Graduate medical education; Quality improvement.

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Conflict of interest statement

Competing interests: LR receives funding from funding from FeelBetter Inc and the American Medical Association. KR, AC, and JK have no interests to disclose.

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Partial sample resident project profile, describing the intervention, ‘building ultrasound-guided IV placement skills via peer training’.

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Percent open (A) and percent click (B) per newsletter. for each newsletter, the percent of total recipients who opened the newsletter and the percent of total recipients who clicked a link in the newsletter is shown.

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