Teaching Quality Improvement in Prelicensure Education

Teaching Quality Improvement in Graduate Medical Education: An Experiential and Team-Based Approach to the Acquisition of Quality Improvement Competencies

PROBLEM An emerging priority in medical education is the need to facilitate learners' acquisition of quality improvement (QI) competencies. Accreditation bodies in both Canada and the United States have included QI and patient safety in their core competencies. APPROACH In 2010, the Department of Family Medicine at Queen's University designed a graduate medical education curriculum to engage ...

Teaching quality improvement in family medicine.

Guidelines for Quality Improvement of Clinical Conferences in Nursing Education

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Reflection and Metacognition in Mathematics Education – Tools for the Improvement of Teaching Quality

On the basis of a category system that classifies metacognitive activities, the first part of this paper shows to what extent reflection can be understood as one of several metacognitive activities. It is then demonstrated that it proved to be useful to consider different nuances of reflection. Illustrated by examples taken from math classes on grammar school level, the second part of the essay...

Integrating quality improvement into pre-registration education.

Healthcare organisations around the world are adopting new strategies to improve the quality of patient care in response to reports of negative patient outcomes and cuts to public service expenditure. However, many nurses lack the knowledge, skills and attitude to improve the systems within which they work, calling for a radical redesign of nursing education to integrate quality improvement sci...