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About us
We are pleased to introduce the Partners “Centers of Expertise,” aimed at ensuring that our residents and fellows are able to explore their interests, connect to their passions, and optimally leverage their talents in service to society.
More on this new initiative...
The Partners Physician Education Strategic Planning “GME 2015 Task Force” described a vision where Partners trainees not only achieve excellence as clinicians, but also gain an “added value,” based on their talent, motivation, and access to outstanding faculty and other resources. This additional dimension will stem from an individualized educational experience, and will help to prepare and position Partners trainees for leadership in all areas of medicine and health care. One key vehicle for realizing this vision will be the Partners Centers of Expertise.
Many residents and fellows are drawn toward certain themes that cut across the specialties of medicine: patient care quality and safety, global health/care of underserved populations, health care management, health policy, medical education, public health and preventive medicine, biomedical research, etc. These important areas are, for some trainees, a source of inspiration and excitement that may even come to define their future career--but in a practical sense they can't be covered in any depth in the specialty-based GME curricula. The virtual Centers of Expertise will each focus on a thematic area of enrichment for trainees, and will offer:
access to senior faculty with deep experience in the thematic area for advice and mentoring;
reading materials, carefully selected by faculty, and available on-line;
invitation to lectures, workshops and/or other educational events (such as journal clubs and grand rounds);
opportunities to participate in specially designed elective experiences of variable length and intensity;
membership in a community of colleagues across specialties and at varying stages of their careers, with a shared interest and common purpose.
More information about other Centers of Expertise will be coming over the next few months. As always, your suggestions and comments are most welcome.
Contact Us: jperlo@partners.org
CENTER OF EXPERTISE IN QUALITY AND PATIENT SAFETY
Senior faculty include David W. Bates, MD, MSc; Jennifer Daley, MD, FACP; Jessica C.Dudley, MD; Tejal K. Gandhi, MD, MPH; Atul Gawande, MD, MPH; Michael Gustafson, MD, MBA; Lucian L. Leape, MD; Thomas H. Lee, MD; Gregg S. Meyer, MD, MSc; MSc; and Elizabeth Mort, MD.
COE QS BIOS
Events
MGH/MGPO Quality and Safety Forum:
MGH/MGPO Quality and Safety Forum Kicks Off March 10th , 1-3pm, Simches Auditorium (Simches 3110)
The MGH/MGPO Center for Quality and Safety is pleased to invite MGH managers and leaders to a new series of meetings called the Quality and Safety Forum. Each forum will be thematic, featuring discussions and presentations on key quality and safety issues affecting the entire institution. The forum will be held roughly 5 times each year, and our objective is to provide valuable and timely information on quality and safety-related issues to a broad group of institutional leaders.
More than ever before, patients and payers are demanding that health care institutions become more transparent about reporting quality measures and costs. It is therefore appropriate that our first Quality and Safety Forum will focus on transparency in health care, and some of the steps the MGH is taking to respond. The agenda includes the following:
- Transparency in Healthcare
Presenter: David Torchiana, MD, Chairman and CEO, MGPO
- MGH Promotes Greater Transparency with Institutional and Public Quality and Safety Dashboards
Presenter: Elizabeth Mort, MD, Vice President, Quality and Safety, Associate Chief Medical Officer, MGH
- Panel discussion
Moderated by Gregg Meyer, MD
We hope you will be able to join us on March 10th from 1-3pm in the Simches Auditorium (Simches 3110). Please contact Akin Demehin in the Center for Quality and Safety at ademehin@partners.org with any questions.
NPSF Congress: May 14-16 2008
See: http://www.npsf.org
/npsfac/
Courses/ Rounds/ Research Opportunities
2007-2008 BWH Quality Rounds Schedule
Patient Safety/Quality Resident Rotation (needs advance notice for scheduling)
Patient Safety Research
Dr.Tejal Gandhi, Dr.David Bates and many of the researchers at BWH Department of Medicine are willing to have a residents work with them, usually for about 3 months during your research time, please contact jperlo@partners.org to arrange a meeting with these faculty.
Web Resources
Mass Coalition: www.macoalition.org
NPSF: www.NPSF.org
IHI: www.IHI.org
Commonwealth Fund: www.commonwealthfund.org
MGH & PHS sites: coming mid March/ April
Agency for Health Care Research and Quality: http://www.ahrq.gov/
AHRQ classics list: http://psnet.ahrq.gov/classics.aspx
Institute for Health Care Improvement: www.ihi.org
Premier: www.premier.org
Partners Clinical Affairs Quality and Safety News: http://clinicalaffairs.partners.org/pca-075.asp#1
Hospital and Health Care Quality News
April 15, 2008 - Hospital and Health Care Quality News Weekly Update
Literature
NPSF Current Awareness Patient Safety Literature Alert-October#1, 2007
NPSF Current Awareness Patient Safety Literature Alert-October#2, 2007
NPSF Current Awareness Patient Safety Literature Alert-November#1, 2007
NPSF Current Awareness Patient Safety Literature Alert-December#1, 2007
NPSF Current Awareness Patient Safety Literature Alert-December#2, 2007
NPSF Current Awareness Patient Safety Literature Alert-January#1, 2008
NPSF Current Awareness Patient Safety Literature Alert-January#2, 2008
NPSF Current Awareness Patient Safety Literature Alert-February#1, 2008
Calendar of Events : Coming soon!
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