... Safety and QI standard (Category 5) states that: “Residents must participate as team members in real and/or simulated interprofessional clinical patient safety and quality improvement activities, such as root cause analyses or other activities that include analysis, as well as formulation...

...-Study-Act cycles, impact-effort matrices, and determination of measurable outcomes). Climate and health curricula in GME will benefit from continuous quality improvement methods as interventions often require adaptation over multiple rotations. In addition to educational quality improvement projects...

... and systems. Pediatricians are lifelong learners. They stay current with advanced and emerging technologies and understand and manage the business of medicine. Pediatricians utilize data management science to inform patient care resulting in high-value patient-centered care, continuous quality improvement...

... saw the implementation of multiple key initiatives that transformed the landscape of GME. During this time, the NAS was fully implemented and rebalanced the focus of accreditation from mostly structure and process requirements to a combined focus with continuous quality improvement and educational...

..., identifying curricular gaps and redundancies, and serving a quality improvement function for the assessment system. 2 To date, however, there has been no synthesis of the existing literature to describe roles actually fulfilled by CCCs and their effect on GME and assessment systems in particular. Without...

... predetermined guidelines from the institutional review board, this project fell into exempt status as a quality improvement endeavor. The commercial kit had 29 items, and a median of 16 (55.2%) of these were discarded without use during diagnostic paracentesis ( Table ). The cost of the commercial kit...

... for curricular development included longitudinal implementation, interprofessional collaboration, and experiential learning through quality improvement projects. Barriers to implementation included time constraints and the lack of knowledgeable educators and administrative support for curricular change...

... Quality improvement (QI) is an Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) requirement and an opportunity to implement diagnostic stewardship initiatives and demonstrate the environmental savings in practice ( Table ). Institutional antimicrobial stewardship programs and diagnostic...

... ( suppl 1 ): 92 - 98 . doi: 10.4300/JGME-D-24-00053.1 16.  Chen EH, Fuentes-Afflick E . Sustainability in action: a financial incentive for trainees embracing environmentally friendly quality improvement projects . J Grad Med Educ . 2024 ; 16 ( suppl 1 ): 135 - 139 . doi...

... and trainees may address this barrier. 7 Trainees in other residency pathways could work with OEM faculty and trainees on joint quality improvement projects, offering synergy and broadening perspectives. Projects could address sustainability, develop clinician educational programs, and target vulnerable...

..., Chiem JL, Righter-Foss K, et al . Project SPRUCE: saving our planet by reducing carbon emissions, a pediatric anesthesia sustainability quality improvement initiative . Anesth Analg . 2023 ; 137 ( 1 ): 98 - 107 . doi: 10.1213/ANE.0000000000006421 9.  American Society...

... of planetary health, regardless of specialty choice, is critical to climate adaptation in health care. Quality improvement (QI) presents an opportunity for SHE in graduate medical education. A SHE-augmented QI (SHE-QI) curriculum overcomes curricular space limitations, improves applicability, and lowers...

... disproportionate risk of climate-related harm? Abbreviations: GME, graduate medical education; PHRC, Planetary Health Report Card; QI, quality improvement. Participants gave rich open-ended feedback on metric wording, scoring, and relevance to GME. Multiple participants recommended adding metrics focused...

... that address the relationship between climate change, environmental sustainability, and quality improvement (QI). We describe a novel residency elective that shows how GME can advance health care sector decarbonization and improve quality of care by facilitating faculty-supported, resident-driven...

... will be collected and analyzed. The CJHE curriculum highlights how didactic noon conferences and interactive workshop sessions can be utilized to deliver climate change–related content to residents. However, other modalities like simulations, journal clubs, grand rounds, and quality improvement projects could...

... to engage residents in implementing climate sustainability improvement projects. Objective We piloted a novel, institution-wide, pay-for-performance (P4P) sustainability quality improvement (SusQI) program in 2023-2024 that enabled residents from all GME programs to implement SusQI projects with practice...

... of sustainability literature, collaboration with national and international institutions, and execution of quality improvement projects to reduce health care waste under the 3 brand pillars of Learning, Leadership, and Delivery. We have promoted TRASH-CAN and its website through conference presentations, social...

... of this quality improvement project was to reduce clinician FGF during general anesthesia with clinical decision support (CDS) tools within the electronic health record (EHR) at a single institution. Methods A non-interruptive alert to reduce FGF was coded into the anesthesia intraoperative EHR workspace to alert...

... to this growing field of research ( Table ). Quality improvement projects can improve outcomes while reducing the environmental cost of health care delivery. 34 Alternatively, evidence-based interventions not primarily focused on sustainability can include environmental impact as a secondary outcome...

... of changes associated with improved health care sustainability. 28 Vacharathit et al described how their continuous quality improvement curriculum had improved the hospital’s sustainability after 5 years of the program. 28 Projects were broken into 3 categories: water waste reduction, regulated...