Welcome to the Quality Improvement (QI) page for the UF Jax Pediatrics Residency! We hope this will be your go-to webpage for QI requirements during residency and QI project resources. We look forward to making our lives and jobs better together with Quality Improvement!
Quality Improvement-Resident Requirements
Quality Improvement-Resources
- PDSA Worksheet- blank
Can QI be Scholarly?- yes it can.
- YES!!! More and more impactful QI initiatives and Patient Safety activities are being published in the most prestigious pediatric journals.
- If you intend to publish or share your experience outside of the area of study, you should have your work scrutinized by an IRB.
- If your intent is to publish from the outset then you should seek IRB approval from the outset.
- QI Published Project Example: Quality Improvement Measures in Pulse-Oximetry Newborn Heart Screenings
Can my QI project be used for Maintenance of Certification (MOC)?
- Find out how to bank MOC (Maintenance of Certification)
- To maintain certification, you need a certain number of credits for QI/Patient Safety every year
- You can bank some credits now for all your hard work taking part in Quality Improvement in Residency and use them later when they are required
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Getting Started With Quality Improvement Course- Everyone to complete during their PL-2 year Learn to use one or a combination of approaches like process mapping, evidence-based medicine, best-practices benchmarking and brainstorming session to improve healthcare quality in the workplace- PEDIALINK MODULE
Pediatric Residency Program: JAX 