I have officially become a groupie of the quality improvement in health care movement. Books sitting on my nightstand include:
Pauline Chen's Final Exam,
Super Crunchers by Ian Ayres, and
How to Change the World by David Bornstein. I squealed like I had just sighted Brad Pitt when Atul Gawande's latest book,
The Checklist Manifesto arrived at my door. Instead of simply saying that I need to clean my apartment, I specifically think that I need to
"5S" my kitchen and desk. In order to stay fit and get rid of the belly fat I've grown since starting medical school, I am now in
PDSA cycle 3 for a 30 minute exercise routine that I can reliably perform every day. The latest sign that I am a quality improvement junkie is my weekend pilgrimage to
Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota.
This past weekend the AMSA Chapter at Mayo Clinic hosted a
Patient Safety and Quality Care Conference at Mayo Clinic. The Mayo Clinic has not only been one of President Obama's shining examples of high quality care at low costs since he began his health reform push early last year, but has also consistently popped up during my experience at IHI as a health system that has truly embraced the IOM aim of patient-centeredness. Even though I'm buried underneath the dorsal columns of my central nervous system sequence, this was an opportunity I could not miss...
Click here to read the full blog post on the IHI Open School Blog.
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