Training the Workforce in Quality Improvement and Quality Improvement Research

2101 Constitution Avenue, Lecture Room

Washington, DC 20418

Wednesday, October 15, 2008

8:30 am             Welcome and Introduction – Theories behind training                        

                        Paul Batalden, Dartmouth College (presentation)

Brian Mittman, Implementation Science and VA

Francis Chesley, AHRQ (presentation)

9:00 am             Dartmouth-Hitchcock Leadership Preventive Medicine Residency

                        Tina Foster (presentation), Kathy Kirkland (presentation) and Stephen Liu (presentation), Dartmouth College

1.        Description of goals, outcomes, and evaluation

2.        Characteristics of trainees

9:50 am             Education Innovation Project

Lia Logio, Indiana Unviversity

1.        Description of goals, outcomes, and evaluation

2.        Characteristics of trainees

10:40 am           Break

10:55 am           QI fellowship

                        Peter Pronovost, Johns Hopkins University (presentation)

1.        Description of goals, outcomes, and evaluation

2.        Characteristics of trainees

11:45 pm           Working Lunch – continued discussion, identification of other

                        programs, Q&A

1:00 pm             Summary of an environmental scan of QI training in health care

                        Sally Holmes, Boston University (presentation)

1:15 pm             Reaction panel

·   What needs to be done to expand/strengthen these programs, recruit new participants, and support graduates?

·   What have you heard today that could be spread to other programs now?

·   What are the barriers to improving training programs?

Moderator: David Stevens, Dartmouth College (presentation)

Panel members: Tom Nasca, Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education; Christine Cassel, American Board of Internal Medicine

3:00 pm             Closing statements of forum

4:15 pm             Adjourn