Have an idea for improving patient care and safety?
The Department of Medicine has launched a new program – IMPROVE – to help faculty, staff and learners bring their quality improvement ideas to fruition.
Those interested in participating and vie for a chance to become a QI Champion will pitch their improvement project ideas to a panel of reviewers, and the proposals will be scored based on their probability for creating meaningful changes to patient care.
The highest scoring projects will be selected, and the new QI Champions will receive formal training through interactive educational sessions with experts in quality improvement as well as mentoring and guidance on how to best implement their proposals.
Lana Dbeibo, MD, the Department of Medicine’s Associate Vice Chair for Clinical Affairs - Quality, Safety, and Population Health, is overseeing the new program. She said the department and hospital system has made great strides when it comes to quality improvement, but there is still work to do.
It’s advantageous to get ideas from the people dealing with patient care day in and day out because they know best where the improvements should be made, she said.
Each program cohort will last nine months, beginning in January. Meetings will be held throughout the year – about once every three weeks – so participants and mentors can check-in with one another, ask questions and set goals.
Applications are due on November 31.
Proposals should be no more than two pages, and should give background, project aims and specific outcomes. Proposals will be reviewed by a committee, and selections will be made in December.
Email proposals to Dbeibo at ldbeibo@iu.edu.
