Quality Improvement and Patient Safety

Quality Improvement and Patient Safety (QIPS) aims to support residency programs with teaching QIPS through a standardized curriculum and resources.

Program Goal and Structure

The curriculum and teaching resources are for residency programs to teach residents about QIPS. The goal is to provide a standardized curriculum and resources to residency programs.

The QIPS curriculum consists of two main topics areas:

Patient Safety

    • An Introduction to Patient Safety primer for residents
    • Synchronous topics on systems thinking and human factors; safe and just culture; and responding to incidents

Quality Improvement

    • Synchronous topics on the fundamentals of QI
    • Quality Improvement Project Guide for residents (a road map through a quality improvement project)

Curricular Content

 

HOW TO ACCESS MATERIALS

OPTION 1 – ENTRADA

Access these materials by

1) Logging onto Entrada [requires CWL login]

2) Putting the following in the browser address bar: https://entrada.med.ubc.ca/community/qips

*Please note that Entrada is not mobile friendly.

OPTION 2 – DROP BOX

Gain immediate access to these materials by completing a Qualtrics form.

Click to Complete Qualtrics Form

Residency Program Support

Residency programs will have access to PowerPoints and facilitation guides to deliver each topic. They will also have access to an Introduction to Patient Safety primer and a Quality Improvement Project Guide that residents can use to support a QI project.

Additionally, they can consult with Dr. Esther Lee, QIPS Project Lead:  Esther.Lee@cw.bc.ca. 

For more details, visit Quality Improvement and Patient Safety.

Contact

For more information about the QIPS program, visit https://postgrad.med.ubc.ca/faculty-staff/quality-improvement-and-patient-safety-qips/

Or contact QIPS Faculty Lead, Dr. Esther Lee. Email her using the following link: Esther.Lee@cw.bc.ca