QI Education
We are very fortunate to have national experts in Quality Improvement including Kristin Shadman, Mala Mathur, and Kristin Tiedt helming longitudinal QI education. All residents complete a longitudinal Quality Improvement project with an assigned faculty mentor. Residents can join QI projects from their continuity clinic sites, specialty venues, inpatient experiences, or may craft their own initiatives. QI work can fulfill the residency requirement for a scholarly project if presented in a research format at local or national meetings.
Our longitudinal QI curriculum includes an annual QI PEARL (block conference) with breakout sessions for each class. Many projects have gone on to result in local, regional, and national presentations.
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Recent Resident Projects
- Using Quality Improvement Methodology to Assess the Effect of a Longitudinal Advocacy Curriculum on Resident Engagement in Advocacy. Bethel J (PGY-3), Yanny M, Sleeth C, Sklansky D. Poster presentation at PAS 2024.
- Faculty Divisions: General Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine, Pediatric Hospital Medicine
- Assessment of Penicillin Allergy and Delabeling Efforts in the University Health Setting. Nordness M (PGY-3), Schauberger E, Painovich L. Poster presentation at Department of Pediatrics Research Week 2024.
- Faculty Divisions: Allergy, Immunology, and Rheumatology, General Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine
- Addressing Autism in the Primary Care Clinic: How Are We Doing? Louwagie M (Class of 2024), Murphy D (Class of 2024), Abd Allah A (Class of 2024), Arendt D (Class of 2024). Poster presentation at Department of Pediatrics Research Week 2024.
- Creation of a Dot Phrase to Transition Infants from Car Beds to Car Seats. Vaughan J, Goetz L, Cordum S (Class of 2023), Nelson K (Class of 2024), Majachani N (Class of 2024), Faust S. Poster presentation at Department of Pediatrics Research Week 2024.
- Faculty Divisions: General Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine, Neonatal and Newborn Medicine
- Project HIFLO: A Local Quality Initiative to Reduce High-Flow Nasal Cannula in Bronchiolitis. Sternhagen T (Class of 2023 and Chief Resident 2023-24), Sunde K (Class of 2023), Tsichlis J, Streckert R (Class of 2024 and Chief Resident 2024-25), Koueik J (Class of 2024), Shadman K, and Hurst A. Poster presentation at Department of Pediatrics Research Week 2024.
- Faculty Divisions: Pediatric Hospital Medicine and Department of Emergency Medicine
- An Intervention to Improve UW Health-Stoughton Immunization Rates. Redemann B (Class of 2023), Raman P, Pletta K. Poster presentation at Department of Pediatrics Research Week 2023.
- Faculty Division: General Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine
Program QI
The program solicits feedback from residents and faculty through town hall meetings, monthly “Pizza with the Program” events, resident council, yearly surveys, and Program Evaluation Committee meetings that feed into a program QI dashboard. For each area we assign a program leader and resident representative and track progress including process and outcome measures. Recent examples include
- Daily progress note improvement program:
- Decreased resident note file time by 2.7 hours
- Decreased amount of text in notes
- Improved note quality by validated scale
- Nationally-published manuscripts from our program
- Rounds redesign
- Incorporated more teaching into rounds, new huddle, and better nursing presence at family-centered rounds
- Patient admitting process redesign