Charting Your Career: Navigating Quality Improvement, Patient Safety, and the Journey to a Learning Organization

Sunday, May 5, 2024

11:00 AM – 12:30 PM ET

Location: Metro Toronto Convention Centre: 716 A

CE: Live CME: 1.5

Leader(s)

Barron Frazier, MD (he/him/his)

Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt
Nashville, Tennessee, United States

Slides

Co-Leader(s)

DJ

David Johnson, MD (he/him/his)

Associate Professor
Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt
Nashville, Tennessee, United States
Sandip Godambe, MD, PhD (he/him/his)

Professor of Pediatrics and Emergency Medicine
University of California, Irvine, School of Medicine
Orange, California, United States
Heather McLean, MD (she/her/hers)

Professor of Pediatrics
Duke University School of Medicine
Durham, North Carolina, United States
AS

Anupama Subramony, MD, MBA (she/her/hers)

Cohen Children's Medical Center
New Hyde Park, New York, United States

Disclosure(s):

Barron Frazier, MD: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.

David P. Johnson, MD: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.

Sandip Godambe, MD, PhD: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.

Heather S. McLean, MD: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.

Anupama Subramony, MD, MBA: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.

Workshop

Description: In today's healthcare landscape, the importance of quality improvement and patient safety (QI&PS) knowledge and application cannot be overstated. However, for early career physicians with a keen interest in QI&PS, navigating the various career paths can be challenging. Recognizing this need for guidance, our interactive workshop offers a comprehensive session applicable to all subspecialties, designed to provide participants with important steps to become experts in QI&PS and leaders within their learning healthcare systems.

Led by a diverse group of QI&PS leaders from various organizations and roles, this workshop utilizes quality improvement tools, including a modified failure mode and effect analysis (FMEA) and a key driver diagram, to create personalized career maps. In the first exercise, we use the FMEA method to address potential career obstacles and devise innovative solutions. The second exercise employs a stakeholder analysis to identify influential figures within and outside participants' institutions for valuable mentorship and career guidance. Participants then use insights from the FMEA and stakeholder analysis to build a career plan with a key driver diagram, emphasizing essential elements for advancing expertise in QI&PS.

Throughout the session, we encourage active participation through live polling, word clouds, and sticky notes in an affinity diagram. The collaborative activities foster connections and networking during the workshop and, by the workshop's end, attendees leave with personalized QI&PS career guides, complete with actionable steps to advance their careers.

Learning Objectives:

Identify potential barriers to career paths in Quality Improvement and Patient Safety (QI&PS)
Employ stakeholder analysis to identify two people at your own institution and one external contact who can provide valuable career guidance and support
Develop key drivers for professional development in QI&PS and pursue actionable items to progress your career