PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Reham Shaaban
AU  - Adrianne Seiler
AU  - Melody Brewer
AU  - Kevin Hinchey
TI  - Baystate Medical Center, Springfield, MA<br/>Development of an Interdisciplinary, Interprofessional Resident Quality Council
DP  - 2014 Mar 20
TA  - Ochsner Journal
PG  - 9--10
VI  - 14
IP  - Spec AIAMC Iss
4099  - http://www.ochsnerjournal.org/content/14/Spec_AIAMC_Iss/9.short
4100  - http://www.ochsnerjournal.org/content/14/Spec_AIAMC_Iss/9.full
SO  - Ochsner J2014 Mar 20; 14
AB  - Background: House staff play a key role in patient care but are not optimally involved in efforts to improve care. Current assessment procedures do not always include resident input, which can lead to lack of engagement. To help meet ACGME requirements, we planned to develop an interdisciplinary, interprofessional resident quality council (RQC) to engage residents in QI culture, teach them about QI, and enhance communication with administrators.Methods: We initiated the RQC in 2012 and selected the chiefs of all 10 residency programs in the hospital as the first class. Our primary focus was teaching the teacher through monthly didactic sessions, allowing us to disseminate information and knowledge about QI science to all residencies. The secondary focus was to form parallel quality tracks in all residencies to perform at least 1 quality project per year, as well as to develop participation criteria and interest for the RQC.Results: We saw significant improvement and comfort with interdisciplinary communication among the 10 participants. We were able to identify QI champion attendings within each program to support the council and connected the psychiatry chief resident to a psychiatry attending to develop a QI track. Participants also generated multiple interdisciplinary project ideas for the future. Residents were chosen to participate without gauging their level of interest, which led to lack of engagement. Residents also had a variety of responsibilities, so scheduling time for the RQC meetings was difficult. The initiative lacked a strong emphasis on the main goal of RQC participation.Conclusions: Although the RQC did not reach all of the initial goals, it successfully formed interdisciplinary working relationships and gauged the house staff's interest in and knowledge of QI. Moving forward, the council will consist of residents who have applied and have shown interest in QI as recognized by their programs.View this table:FINAL WORK PLAN – Baystate Medical Center