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Practical Approaches for Achieving Required Competencies in Systems-based Practice and Practice-based Learning and Improvement


September 26-28, 2002
Hyatt Regency Cambridge
Cambridge, MA

 
Attendees' Action Steps
 
On the conference evaluation form, almost all respondents stated that they intended to take specific steps to improve their organization or program's training of new practitioners. A few months after the conference THCI surveyed attendees to see what they had done. Here are some highlights from their responses, sorted by the type of activity.
 

Curriculum review and reform:

  • Step back and take a survey of what our program's learning objectives should be in systems-based and practice-based sections of our evolving curriculum
  • Re-look at core courses to be sure systems-based and practice-based issues are there
  • Design/implementation of a longitudinal curriculum in "Managing Care," which integrates many of the critical skills included under the new competencies

New and adapted training experiences:

  • Talking about the competencies at every possible opportunity with all levels of staff (faculty, managers, admin) … turn every question or complaint into an opportunity for discussion about the competencies
  • Residents each spend time with a health paraprofessional in our clinic; they all present what they learned and brainstorm for QA projects to improve the running of the clinic, with emphasis of working as a team
  • Formalized a method of capturing and discussing adverse events in weekly "Systems-based Practice" morning report
  • Create longitudinal projects for our residency program that meet benchmarks for all 6 competencies
  • Residents participate in QI projects

Faculty development:

  • Faculty discussion of new competencies and evaluation matrix
  • Scheduled faculty development sessions as part of faculty meetings to discuss the new competencies and integration into curriculum

New and adapted assessment approaches:

  • Revise our remediation plan to incorporate core competencies to be used in residents' yearly and summary evaluation, if appropriate
  • Get residents to buy into evaluation processes
  • Incorporate an evaluation of resident participation on care management team rounds (nurse manager, care coordinator and resident meet daily) as part of the 360 degree evaluation
  • A portfolio for current students to document demonstrated competencies (checklist of faculty observed procedures, etc), projects and papers, resource research
  • Implement patient satisfaction surveys

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