Hey everyone!
You all recently received inpatient quality metrics as well as some email communication to accompany them. The slides attached to this post contain some information on the history of this initiative, specific information on how the metrics were defined, as well as your peer resident physicians from the quality committee in years past who helped start the project and selected the metrics (you may see some familiar faces!).
Here’s some take-home points:
–History: These reports are the product of a joint initiative by 5 residency programs (orthopedic surgery, anesthesiology, OB/GYN, internal medicine, and general surgery) to develop specialty-specific quality metrics for residents within each program
–Objective of the program: Along with meeting ACGME requirements, the goal of the program is to provide low-stakes exposure for residents to individual quality measurement (these reports in residency will not be used as evaluation)
–Rationale/Importance: we already receive outpatient quality metrics. Despite most of our training being inpatient, we did not previously have a formalized way of getting inpatient metrics. The goal is to help us reflect on our care to potentially act and improve the care we provide for our patients
–Future: this is a work in progress and your feedback is welcome! If you have questions or feedback on how metrics can be more helpful, you can write to your chief residents or email academicaffairs@nm.org
Mike