WGEA 2024 Spring Conference

Presenters:
Serena Collins, Stanford University School of Medicine
Ethan T Du, Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine
Brian Herman, Stanford University School of Medicine
Joe Gayk, Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine
Irina Russell, Stanford University School of Medicine

Topic: Student Affairs and Services

Rationale
Running and maintaining a Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) system that evaluates and iteratively improves medical education programs and processes has been a requirement for accreditation at North American Medical Schools since 2016. Stanford established their system as recently as 2021, while Kaiser Permanente SOM (KPSOM) CQI system has been in place since shortly after the school’s founding in 2019. Our two schools would like an opportunity to share our experiences with CQI implementation, scaling and maintenance in an interactive panel.
As part of this discussion, we will focus on the resources that are available at different institutions for building and operating such systems. Every institution has different organizational structures and budgets for implementing and running CQI. At KPSOM, the CQI system has been managed by several offices since inception. At Stanford, there was a bare bones approach to implementing CQI, using institutional tools at hand.