Stritch School of Medicine - Elective Course Catalog

Introduction

Medicine (MED)

Dept. Contact:	Debi Kurcab
Location:	Rm. 7611A, Bldg. 102
Phone:	708-216-4813
Email:	dkurcab@lumc.edu

Department: Medicine

Course Number: MED-487

Course Title: Quality Improvement in US Healthcare

No. of Students: 1-2

Site: LUMC

Supervisor: Elizabeth Schulwolf, MD

Duration: 4, 6, or 8 weeks

Periods Offered: Year round

Prerequisite: Available to third and fourth year students.

Special Note:
Graded Pass/Fail Only.

Description:
To better prepare its graduates for meeting the competency of practice-based learning and improvement as future residents, Loyola’s SSOM will offer an elective in Quality Improvement (QI). The goal of this elective is for medical students to cultivate the skills needed to identify challenges in providing quality patient care and employ QI tools needed to address them. In doing so, medical students will appreciate the role that QI initiatives play in bettering both individual patient care and health systems at large.

Method of Evaluation:
The student will be evaluated by the Course Director based on his evaluation of the student’s basic skill levels as reflected in her fund of knowledge, acquisition of new knowledge and successful development, implementation and analysis of a Quality Improvement initiative.

Objective assessment tools: 1. Faculty will rate knowledge based on their interaction with the student. 2. Assessment of communication skills will be based on direct faculty observation. 3. Assessment of professionalism will be based on direct faculty observation, compliance with course expectations and evaluation of the final QI project. 4. QI skills will be assessed by direct faculty observation and evaluation of the project. 5. Assessment of presentation skills.

Grading will be Pass/Fail. A passing grade will be assigned to a student who completes the necessary requirements of the elective.