Advanced Fellowship in Quality Improvement and Safety
The Pediatric Palliative Care Program provides a 12 month fellowship in Quality Improvement and Safety in Pediatric Palliative Care.
The program will provide:
- The background knowledge, skills, and analytic framework required for quality, safety, and performance improvement.
- The opportunity to engage in and perform quality, safety, and performance improvement projects in multi-disciplinary settings within the department, the institution, and all relevant national quality organizations.
- The skills required for the preparation of enduring academic material on the subject of quality, safety, and performance improvement.
- Leadership skills in multi-disciplinary settings.
The advanced fellowship is expected to follow the one-year ACGME fellowship in pediatric hospice and palliative medicine, but does not have to follow it immediately. Approximately 60% of the advanced fellow's time will be spent on academic activity, and 40% on clinical activity. The advanced fellow could function as either a "Senior Fellow" or as "Junior Faculty."
Program Structure
| Timeline |
Academic Time |
Tasks |
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Month 2 to 0
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NA |
- Weekly calls with program director and medical director to prepare for I2S2 project
- Participation in I2S2 pre-class calls
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| Month 1 |
3-4 days / week |
- Introduction to Quality Improvement and Safety topics and options for improvement project presented in week 1 to 4
- Preparation of IRB protocol/ 12S2 project
- Clinical activity in the capacity of either senior fellow or junior faculty 1-2/days/week
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| Month 2-7 |
3-4 days / week |
- Attend Quality Improvement didactic course lectures (12S2) 2 days a month
- Work on improvement project (including baseline data collection, conducting PDSA cycles and data analysis with run charts) with coach and departmental faculty 3-4 days a week
- Attend Quality Improvement / Safety didactic lectures 1-2 days a week (Health Services and Ql Research Conferences, Research in Progress Conferences, Quality Improvement writing sessions)
- Present Improvement project to anesthesia faculty/staff
- Present/lead national pediatric palliative care QI collaborative calls
- Clinical activity in the capacity of either senior fellow or junior faculty 1-2/days/week
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Month 8 to 9
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2-3 days / week |
- Academic time 2-3 days /week
- Attend didactic 1252 course lectures with presentation of data and run charts
- Abstract and Manuscript preparation
- Clinical activity in the capacity of either senior fellow or junior faculty 2-3/days/week
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Month 9 to 12
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2-3 days / week |
- Abstract and Manuscript preparation
- IHI visit (1 week)
- Exposure to lean Methodology (e.g. Seattle Children’s Hospital visit-1week)
- Attend/present at International forum on Quality and Safety (April 2019)
- Present at national pediatric palliative care QI workshop (April 2019, hosted by Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center)
- Clinical activity in the capacity of either senior fellow or junior faculty 2-3/days/week
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