This month, the Office of Graduate Medical Education is celebrating its first class of Quality Improvement and Patient Safety Certificate Program graduates. A small cohort of residents and fellows spent the past academic year growing in quality improvement and patient safety. They also conducted a QI capstone project and had the opportunity to present at a poster forum.
Projects were presented by 34 residents and fellows representing 19 different departments from both the Lexington and Bowling Green campuses. The poster forum was organized by the Office of Graduate Medical Education and projects were judged by a group of hospital leaders, program directors, faculty, and residents. Thanks go out to all of the presenters and their colleagues and faculty mentors who worked on these efforts to improve quality, safety, and efficiency in their respective specialties as well as UK HealthCare as a whole.
Special congratulations go out to the project winners listed below:
First Place (tie)
Molly Bates, MD, Neurology
"The Consult Compendium: A Model for Enhancing the Quality of Consults and Improving Institutional Collaboration"
Mariel Becker, MD, Obstetrics and Gynecology
"Minimizing Surplus Opioid Prescriptions Following Gynecologic Oncology: A Quality Improvement Initiative"
Second Place (tie)
Hilary Crutcher, MD, Internal Medicine
"Get in Line: Improving Appropriate Midline Utilization at the Lexington, KY, Veterans Affairs Hospital"
Lekha Devara, MD, General Surgery
"Preference Card Utilization: Optimizing Cost and Efficiency for Laparoscopic Pediatric Inguinal Hernia Repair"
Third Place (tie)
Madeline Anderson, DO, General Surgery
"Optimizing Clinic Efficiency and Patient Flow in an Outpatient General Surgery Clinic"
William R. Harden, DO, MBA, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
"A Physical Therapist Post-Acute Coordinator Improving Acute Care Hospitalization Length-of-Stay"
Rani Priyanka Vasireddy, MBBS, MHA, Neurology
"Streamlining Stroke Discharges: A Pathway to Seamless Transitions"
