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A new paradigm for medical trainee participation in quality improvement

Thomas Rollinson, Aklak Choudhury and John Dean
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.7861/fhj.9-2-s102
Future Healthc J July 2022
Thomas Rollinson
AQuality Improvement Partners
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Aklak Choudhury
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CRoyal College of Physicians, London, UK
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Introduction

There is an expectation that trainee doctors should participate in quality improvement (QI) projects as part of their continuous professional development.1 Foundation year and internal medicine training (IMT) curricula state the QI learning objectives and assessment requirements at the annual review of competency progression (ARCP). However, there may be limited constructive alignment as to how QI training is delivered, with individual healthcare organisations often being left to fill the void. Doctors may experience limited opportunities to participate in QI, leading to unwanted behaviours, such as treating QI as a tick box exercise at ARCP, and ‘having to do a QI project’.

Materials and methods

As part of an information-gathering exercise, a set of principles were developed comparing current approaches to QI participation for trainee doctors against a potential future state, where QI becomes ‘business as usual’.

We sought feedback from active healthcare QI community through the social media portal Twitter, on a new model that reframes the current approach for QI involvement for trainee doctors (Fig 1).

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A new paradigm for trainee doctor participation in quality improvement.

The message below was posted on Twitter on 2 September 2021, together with Fig 1.

Trainee doctors express huge frustrations about doing QI within acute #NHS trusts, with the QI ‘projects’ often left abandoned. Perhaps time to build a ‘new world’ for trainee involvement in QI? A better experience for trainees, NHS trusts and for patients.

Choudary A (2 September 2021) https://twitter.com/AklakC/status/1433507363206668299.

Results and discussion

The tweet received 248 likes and 75 retweets. We divided feedback comments into four emergent themes (Table 1).

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Conclusion

The feedback was deemed positive for a reframing of QI for doctors in training. There is an appetite for a more integrated, multidisciplinary approach for developing improvement skills and experience within organisations and a move away from doctor-led ‘QI projects’. Changing the current paradigm will require coordinated action from professional and educational bodies and leaders, hospital and wider system improvement leads. Trainee assessments in the future may need alignment to this more collaborative framework on QI. Further work is planned to publish a positional paper for ‘Reframing QI for physicians in training’ in the near future led by physicians working with the RCP, and involving other stakeholders. We encourage examples of good practice that fit the potential ‘new world’ to be shared via RCPQI@rcp.ac.uk and headed ‘Reframing QI’.

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Reference

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    1. Academy of Medical Royal Colleges
    . Quality improvement – training for better outcomes. AOMRC, 2016. www.aomrc.org.uk/reports-guidance/quality-improvement-training-better-outcomes/ [Accessed 4 February 2021].
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Thomas Rollinson, Aklak Choudhury, John Dean
Future Healthc J Jul 2022, 9 (Suppl 2) 102-103; DOI: 10.7861/fhj.9-2-s102

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