Abstracts will be accepted Thursday, November 15, 2018 through Monday, December 31, 2018, 11:59 pm ET. It was extended from December 27. No late submissions will be accepted after December 31.

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ABOUT
The eleventh annual Association of American Medical Colleges’ (AAMC) Integrating Quality Conference 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. This year's theme, Getting on Track to Achieve Health Equity, will spur on academic medicine's national dialogue and spread of pragmatic clinical, operational, and educational strategies, tactics, and tools toward improving health equity.

This 2-day conference will offer engaging plenary sessions, interactive workshops, presentations, and poster sessions. There will be ample opportunities for leaders, faculty, educators, and learners to network and learn new ways to advance initiatives in their institutions, in their community, and beyond.

TOPIC AREAS
AAMC seeks proposals for posters, interactive workshops, and presentations in health equity, 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 that address social determinants of health, health and health care disparities, and/ or health equity to align with the conference theme will receive additional consideration. 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 Equity
Academic medical centers and their public health, community-based, and other partners are working to achieve health equity by improving population health and community health and by making health care safer and more accessible, affordable, and equitable. Examples of proposal topics include but are not limited to:
• Engaging patients, families, and communities in activities that address social determinants of health
• Creating a community and institutional culture to achieve health equity goals with learners, faculty, and leaders
• Quality improvement activities and organizational strategies designed to improve health care equity and address disparities
• Educational programs or strategies designed to integrate health equity concepts into medical education

2. 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:
• Engaging patients, families, and communities in activities that effectively address social determinants of health
• Creating a community and institutional culture to achieve health equity goals with learners, faculty, and leaders
• Engaging 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 improvement activities and organizational strategies designed to improve health care equity and address disparities

3. Patient Safety
Patient safety is at the core of providing high 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:
• The intersection of patient safety and professionalism
• 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, learners, others) in patient safety culture, including safety event reporting
• Educating and improving around the disclosure of adverse events

4. 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