Partners Office for Graduate Medical Education (GME) Quality and Safety

Quality of patient care encompasses safety, effectiveness, patient-centeredness, timeliness, efficiency, and equity. The mission of the Center is to support the interests and passions of trainees in exploring healthcare delivery with an emphasis on quality and patient safety. The Center of Expertise in Quality and Patient Safety provide trainees with: access to monthly didactic sessions led by Center faculty opportunities to present cases in didactic sessions mentorship and research opportunities working with Center faculty funding grants to attend national conferences research funds for specific quality and safety related proposals

Faculty Chairs Tejal K. Gandhi, MD, MPH & Gregg S. Meyer, MD, MSc and the faculty of leaders in the field of quality serve as speakers, mentors and research collaborators to participating trainees. Faculty Biographies David W. Bates, MD, MSc Jennifer Daley, MD, FACP Jessica C. Dudley, MD Tim Ferris, MD Tejal K. Gandhi, MD, MPH Atul Gawande, MD, MPH Michael Gustafson, MD Lucian L. Leape, MD Thomas H. Lee, MD Gregg S. Meyer, MD, MSc Elizabeth Mort, MD		Events and Programs Upcoming Events See the Partners GME Calendar for upcoming event details. Liz Mort, Associate Chief Medical Officer, MGH. April 21 6pm, MGH Bulfinch 222. The MGH/MGPO Quality and Safety Forum (5 x/yr) contact ademehin@partners.org Archived Events Archived didactic sessions and presentation materials

Trainee Research and Funding Opportunities Mentorship: Faculty of the Center will meet with trainees to discuss research, career plans, and other topics of interest. Contact Centers of Expertise for information. National meeting sponsorship: The Center offers support for a number of trainees to attend the national conferences of the Institute of Healthcare Improvement and the National Patient Safety Foundation Annual Congress. Contact Centers of Expertise for information and applications. Research funding: The Center provides several $5000 stipends annually for research projects. The 2009 process is closed. The process will reopen in early summer 2010. Research projects: Faculty Tejal Gandhi and David Bates will conduct research with trainees for 3 month rotations. To arrange a meeting contact Centers of Expertise. Research rotation: BWH Patient Safety/Quality Resident Rotation		Web Resources and Quality News internal sites BWH Quality & Safety Website MGH Quality & Safety Website Partners HealthCare Quality & Safety Website Partners Clinical Affairs Quality and Safety News external sites Agency for Health Care Research and Quality Agency for Health Care Research and Quality AHRQ classics list Commonwealth Fund Institute for Health Care Improvement IHI Open School for Health Professionals IHI Open School for Health Professions Mass Coalition for the Prevention of Medical Errors National Patient Safety Foundation National Patient Safety Literature Alerts

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