Outcomes in quality improvement and patient safety training: moving from in-person to synchronous distance education

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BACKGROUND: The COVID-19 pandemic necessitated increased synchronous distance education (SDE) in graduate medical education, presenting challenges for Quality Improvement and Patient Safety (QIPS) best practices, which call for integration with daily clinical care and investigation of real patient safety events. OBJECTIVE: To evaluate educational outcomes for QIPS training after conversion of a mature, in-person curriculum to SDE. METHODS: 68 postgraduate year (PGY)-1 residents were surveyed before and after the SDE Culture of Patient Safety training in June 2020, and 59 PGY-2s were administered the Quality Improvement Knowledge Application Tool-Revised (QIKAT-R) before and after the SDE QIPS seminar series in July-August 2020. Values before and after training were compared using sign tests for matched pairs (PGY-1) and Wilcoxon signed-rank tests (PGY-2). RESULTS: 100% (68 of 68) of PGY-1s and 46% (27 of 59) of PGY-2s completed precourse and postcourse surveys. Before the course, 55 PGY-1s (81%) strongly agreed that submitting patient safety event reports are a physician's responsibility, and 63 (93%) did so after (15% increase, p=0.004). For PGY-2s, the median composite QIKAT-R score was 17 (IQR 14.5-20) before and 22.5 (IQR 20-24.5) after the seminars, with a median difference of 4.5 (IQR 1.5-7), a 32% increase in QIPS competency (p=0.001). CONCLUSIONS: Patient safety attitudes and quality improvement knowledge increased after SDE QIPS training at comparable levels to previously published results for in-person training, supporting SDE use in future hybrid curricula to optimise educational value and reach.

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Chen, A., Kwendakwema, N., Vande Vusse, L. K., Narayanan, M., Strizich, L., Albert, T., & Wu, C. (2023). Outcomes in quality improvement and patient safety training: moving from in-person to synchronous distance education. BMJ Open Quality, 12(1). https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjoq-2022-002176

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