Resident Corner Fall ’19

STARS Candy Rounds by Swetha Ramachandran, MD and the QIPS Residents

As part of the internal medicine residency program at BMC, there is a Quality Improvement and Patient Safety (QIPS) pathway for residents who are interested in identifying patient safety issues and improving outcomes using quality improvement methodologies. This year the residents in the QIPS pathway are working to promote resident participation in quality improvement initiatives.

To achieve this goal, we have started weekly patient safety rounds where a QIPS resident will touch base with medicine teams in person to inquire about patient safety issues that the teams have encountered in the hospital. With these weekly rounds, we hope to increase resident STARS reporting and patient safety awareness.

Additionally, each week a STARS report will be reviewed by a QIPS resident with the aim of improving recurrent systems issues as well as providing feedback to the reporting provider. As a group, the QIPS pathwa

y residents are excited and motivated to make changes that will improve patient care and streamline hospital processes.