MED - 755 Quality and Safety in the Hospital

This course focuses on how inpatient medical care is provided currently, things we do well and not so well as institutions and providers, the triggers for admission/discharge, the business model behind our current hospital practice and how new legislation is already shifting priorities and incentives for both institutions and providers. The elective will consist of rotating on the Attending Directed Service at Rush, working one on one with a medical hospitalist during the day, and didactics in the afternoons. Didactics will be interactive, focusing on health policy, the business of medicine, new models of providing care, basic statistics, defining and measuring high quality care, and providing safe care in the hospital. Students will also attend Morbidity and Mortality Conferences across different disciplines, Dept of Medicine Quality and Safety council, hospital wide root cause analyses, and Dept of Medicine and Division of Hospital Medicine Grand Rounds. The experience will culminate with students coming up with a blueprint for their own quality or safety project to improve care at Rush, with potential to implement the project with mentorship from the teaching faculty in the future. Elective