Abstracts will be accepted Wednesday, November 15, 2017 through Friday, December 29, 2017, 12:59 pm ET.
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ABOUT
The tenth annual Association of American Medical Colleges’ (AAMC)
Integrating Quality Conference: A Decade of Progress Bridging Health Care Quality and Education is a highly interactive, interprofessional conference focused on sharing integrative approaches and strategies for improving and implementing best practices in health care quality, patient safety, and high-value care through health professions education, care delivery, and research.
Collectively during the past decade, academic medicine has made notable strides to bridge health care quality improvements in care delivery with efforts to educate and train the next generation of health care professionals to improve quality, patient safety, and value. Increasingly, medical schools, residency programs, and health professions education are integrating the quality and safety mission and practices of teaching hospitals and health systems into classrooms and clinical learning environments, and clinical care and health system leaders are also recognizing the value of involving students and trainees in quality, safety, and value.
This 2-day conference will focus on these efforts via plenary sessions, interactive workshops, presentations, and poster sessions. There will be ample opportunities for leaders, faculty, educators, trainees, and students to network and learn new ways to advance the quality, patient safety, and value initiatives in their institutions and beyond.
TOPIC AREAS
AAMC seeks proposals for posters, interactive workshops, and presentations in health care quality, patient safety, and high-value care with an emphasis on successful strategies in care delivery, health professions education, and research in health professions schools, teaching hospitals, and health care systems. Submissions typically focus on educational or clinical initiatives, research projects, operational issues, or other evidence-based practice efforts at the national, multi-institutional, or single institution levels. Proposals should aim to enhance attendees’ knowledge, skills, and/ or abilities. Submissions will be accepted from personnel at teaching hospitals, health care systems, health professions schools, and health professions associations or boards. Submissions from educational companies or other commercial entities must be submitted through the partner hospital or university/school involved in the activity.
1. Health Care Quality
The know-how and skills to improve quality in health care today can be promoted in the clinical learning environment across the clinical care delivery, educational, and research continuums. Examples of proposal topics include but are not limited to:
• Novel education on quality improvement
• Engaging physician faculty and trainees in quality activities that can foster joy and meaning in work
• Using performance, clinical, and financial population health or patient experience data for improvement
• Quality activities and organizational strategies designed to improve health care equity
• Quality improvement activities that address the prevention and treatment of opiate use disorder
• Patient/family engagement in quality improvement activities to enrich the care experience
• Improving care transitions
2. Patient Safety
Patient safety is at the core of providing quality care. Proposals should address practical strategies, approaches, and lessons learned for how attendees can improve patient safety and optimize the environment for learning, care, and discovery. Examples of proposal topics include but are not limited to:
• Providing support for caregivers after a patient safety event, addressing provider burnout
• Training interprofessional teams across disciplines and/or health professions to deliver safer care
• Creating a culture of safety and high reliability
• Engaging providers (faculty, trainees, others) in patient safety culture, including safety event reporting
• Educating and improving around the disclosure of adverse events
3. High-Value Care
The need for higher value in health care is greater than ever. The goal of high-value health care is to produce the best health outcomes at the lowest cost. Health care professionals are increasingly given incentives to deliver high-value care by virtue of such payment reform measures as pay-for-performance policies, bundled-payment strategies, global budgets, and financial risk sharing within accountable care organizations. Examples of proposal topics include but are not limited to:
• Engaging health professionals in sustainable local value improvement initiatives to reduce waste
• Teaching health professional students to apply value-based care principles in their current and future practice
• Advancing care delivery models that improve care and reduce overall costs
• Improving organizational processes that lead to gains in population health
• Novel practices demonstrating the shift from volume to value
• Value-based payment programs