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2023 Quality Improvement in Geriatric Medicine
Are you a medical, nurse or AHP student with an interest in care of older people?
Course overview:
Quality improvement projects can improve patient care, as well as boost your future applications, provide an opportunity for national prizes and demonstrate your commitment to this specialty. All whilst getting to know more about Geriatric medicine and if it could be your future specialty.
This one-day interactive workshop is designed especially for undergraduate medical, nurse or AHP students. It focuses on building understanding and interest in quality improvement through teaching and group discussions, where participants’ own projects can be brought to life.
Aim
- To build foundations for a successful quality improvement project
Objectives:
- To gain insight into the importance and background of quality improvement work
- To understand PSDA cycles and quality improvement methodologies
- To design your own project with focused aims
- To identify how you can work in teams to deliver improvement
Costs
Programme
BGS Quality Improvement Workshop for Medical Students
Saturday 14th January 2023 – 10am to 4pm
10.00 Introduction
10.30 What is Quality Improvement
10.50 Model for Improvement/Data collection/run charts
11.10 Worked Example - Picking a problem 11.10
11.30-11.45 BREAK
11.45 Analysing the problem
12.00 Activities
- Driver diagram
- Fishbone
- SMART Aims
12.45-13.30 LUNCH
13.30 Worked example and Analysis/change ideas
Presenting Work
13.45-14.30 Prep –group work time to prep project presentation
14:30-15:30 Presenting work
- background
- SMART aims
- something you found useful
15:30-15:40 BREAK
ACT
15:40 Adapt, Adopt, Abandon – activity
15.50 Conclusion