Continuous quality improvement in surgery residencies

Attrition in Plastic Surgery Residencies

Practice-based learning and improvement: a curriculum in continuous quality improvement for surgery residents.

HYPOTHESIS Surgery residents can learn continuous quality improvement (CQI) principles within a structured curriculum and propose quality improvement projects. DESIGN Curriculum within a surgical residency program. SETTING A university surgical residency program with multiple hospital training sites. PARTICIPANTS Fifteen surgical residents during the dedicated research year. INTERVENTIO...

Continuous quality improvement, total quality management, and reengineering: one hospital's continuous quality improvement journey.

In recent years, there has been significantly increasing interest in the application of continuous quality improvement (CQI) and total quality management (TQM) in the health care arena. This case analysis is designed to identify and assess the strategies and processes that led to the successful implementation of CQI in the Emergency Care Center at St. Mary's Hospital in Grand Rapids, MI.

Continuous quality improvement in the classroom.

This article describes the use of continuous quality improvement (CQI) techniques, such as use of customer focus and the promotion of group interaction and problem solving, in an introductory nursing course. The use of CQI techniques resulted in satisfied students who met the course objectives.

Quality Function Deployment in Continuous Improvement

Six Sigma is a customer focused continuous improvement strategy and discipline that minimizes defects. It is a philosophy to promote excellence in all business processes with aggressive target goals. Six Sigma is a five phase methodology for continuous improvement which uses a metric based on standard deviation. It is also a statistic which describes the amount of variation in a process. Six Si...