TY - JOUR
T1 - Student High Value Care Initiative
T2 - a Longitudinal Model for Student-Led Implementation and Scholarship
AU - Cho, Hyung J.
AU - Tsega, Surafel
AU - Krouss, Mona
AU - Goetz, Celine
AU - Dunn, Andrew S.
AU - Di Capua, John
AU - Lee, Irene
AU - Linker, Anne S.
AU - Makhni, Sonya
AU - Korenstein, Deborah
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2023, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Society of General Internal Medicine.
PY - 2023/5
Y1 - 2023/5
N2 - Background: Educating medical trainees to practice high value care is a critical component to improving quality of care and should be introduced at the beginning of medical education. Aim: To create a successful educational model that provides medical students and junior faculty with experiential learning in quality improvement and mentorship opportunities, and produce effective quality initiatives. Setting: A tertiary medical center affiliated with a medical school in New York City. Participants: First year medical students, junior faculty in hospital medicine, and a senior faculty course director. Program Description: The Student High Value Care initiative is a longitudinal initiative comprised of six core elements: (1) project development, (2) value improvement curriculum, (3) mentorship, (4), Institutional support, (5) scholarship, and (6) student leadership. Program Evaluation: During the first 3 years, 68 medical students and ten junior faculty participated in 10 quality improvement projects. Nine projects were successful in their measured outcomes, with statistically significant improvements. Nine had an abstract accepted to a regional or national meeting, and seven produced publications in peer-reviewed literature. Discussion: In the first 3 years of the initiative, we successfully engaged medical students and junior faculty to create and support the implementation of successful quality improvement initiatives. Since that time, the program continues to offer meaningful mentorship and scholarship opportunities.
AB - Background: Educating medical trainees to practice high value care is a critical component to improving quality of care and should be introduced at the beginning of medical education. Aim: To create a successful educational model that provides medical students and junior faculty with experiential learning in quality improvement and mentorship opportunities, and produce effective quality initiatives. Setting: A tertiary medical center affiliated with a medical school in New York City. Participants: First year medical students, junior faculty in hospital medicine, and a senior faculty course director. Program Description: The Student High Value Care initiative is a longitudinal initiative comprised of six core elements: (1) project development, (2) value improvement curriculum, (3) mentorship, (4), Institutional support, (5) scholarship, and (6) student leadership. Program Evaluation: During the first 3 years, 68 medical students and ten junior faculty participated in 10 quality improvement projects. Nine projects were successful in their measured outcomes, with statistically significant improvements. Nine had an abstract accepted to a regional or national meeting, and seven produced publications in peer-reviewed literature. Discussion: In the first 3 years of the initiative, we successfully engaged medical students and junior faculty to create and support the implementation of successful quality improvement initiatives. Since that time, the program continues to offer meaningful mentorship and scholarship opportunities.
KW - High value care
KW - Innovation
KW - Medical education
KW - Medical student
KW - Quality improvement
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U2 - 10.1007/s11606-023-08100-y
DO - 10.1007/s11606-023-08100-y
M3 - Article
C2 - 36829048
AN - SCOPUS:85149685896
SN - 0884-8734
VL - 38
SP - 1541
EP - 1546
JO - Journal of General Internal Medicine
JF - Journal of General Internal Medicine
IS - 6
ER -