Lifelong Learning

Quality Improvement in medical education can take place along several stages of behavior change, from orientation to enablement to sustainment. The timing of QI intervention, and the ways in which QI teams collaborate creatively within each phase, become critical. Joining host Alicia Sutton to elaborate on this type of modeling for education improvement is Chitra Subramaniam, Ph.D., Assistant Dean and Director for Continuing Medical Education at Duke University's Clinical Research Institute. Dr. Subramaniam is also Assistant Dean at the Duke Center for Educational Excellence.

Host Alicia Sutton welcomes Dr. Arif Kamal, Director of Quality and Outcomes at the Duke Cancer Institute, to talk about ways in which clinicians can become more involved or even take the reins of leadership in quality improvement initiatives within their health systems. The discussion pays close attention to the burgeoning field of Big Data, and how its rapid entry into healthcare impacts quality improvement efforts.

Host Alicia Sutton is joined by Bob Meinzer, Senior Director for National Education Strategy at the New Jersey Academy of Family Physicians. Their topic of focus is accountable care organizations (ACOs): what they are, how they are structured, and where their potential benefits and pitfalls lie respectively within the medical education field.

"Quality improvement is not an event or a project; it's a continuous process." This is the sentiment of special guest Louis Diamond, President of the Quality in Health Care Advisory Group, LLC. Mr. Diamond also serves as Quality Improvement Education Initiation Chair for ACEHP. He joins host Alicia Sutton to discuss medical education's roles in quality improvement (QI) and the triumphs and challenges occurring at clinical and health political levels to advance QI goals.

The Patient Centered Medical Home. What is it? How do practices become PCMH-recognized? And how do PCMH models change the way medical education is crafted and delivered to clinicians? Host Alicia Sutton welcomes guests Jennifer D'alessandro and Scott Weber to explore these and other questions. Ms. D'alessandro is Assistant Director of Education at the National Committee for Quality Assurance, a non-profit organization dedicated to improving health care quality. Mr. Weber is CEO of MED-IQ, a leading provider of continuing medical education.

Continuous professional development in medicine is a lifelong endeavor that extends well beyond medical school. As our knowledge of system improvement increases, we begin to see corresponding changes in the learning environment. This creates new reasons for healthcare professionals to engage in quality improvement (QI) education. Joining host Alicia Sutton to discuss this evolution is Dr. Jack Kues, Associate Dean for Continuous Professional Development at the University of Cincinnati.

Knowledge Translation (KT) is the process of making knowledge created within one professional community accessible, understandable and useful within other professional communities, which leads ultimately to widespread adoption of that knowledge into everyday health practices. But how is this done, and does it have any disruptive effects on Quality Improvement (QI) standards? Joining host Alicia Sutton to speak on this matter is Dr. Robert J. Birnbaum, MD, PhD. Dr. Birnbaum is the Knowledge Translation Research Director for the Massachusetts General Hospital Academy, the Director of Continuing Professional Development at Partners HealthCare, and an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School.

Knowledge Translation (KT) is the process of making knowledge created within one professional community accessible, understandable and useful within other professional communities, which leads ultimately to widespread adoption of that knowledge into everyday health practices. But how is this done, and does it have any disruptive effects on Quality Improvement (QI) standards? Joining host Alicia Sutton to speak on this matter is Dr. Robert J. Birnbaum, MD, PhD. Dr. Birnbaum is the Knowledge Translation Research Director for the Massachusetts General Hospital Academy, the Director of Continuing Professional Development at Partners HealthCare, and an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School.

Whether one is a learner or an educator, the current and potential impacts of legistlative trends from Washington are tremendous. As collaborations between academia, industry, and the government become increasingly complex, advocates of quality improvement in medical education must learn to navigate new challenges in key areas such as conflicts of interest, healthcare reform, physician-patient communications, and healthcare technologies. Joining host Alicia Sutton to discuss this important topic is John F. Kamp, Executive Director of the Coalition for Healthcare Communication.

Whether one is a learner or an educator, the current and potential impacts of legistlative trends from Washington are tremendous. As collaborations between academia, industry, and the government become increasingly complex, advocates of quality improvement in medical education must learn to navigate new challenges in key areas such as conflicts of interest, healthcare reform, physician-patient communications, and healthcare technologies. Joining host Alicia Sutton to discuss this important topic is John F. Kamp, Executive Director of the Coalition for Healthcare Communication.