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Clinicians in Quality ImprovementA New Career Pathway in Academic Medicine
Kaveh G. Shojania, MD;
Wendy Levinson, MD, MPH
JAMA. 2009;301(7):766-768.
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Academic medical centers (AMCs) strive for excellence in patient care, education, and research. Until relatively recently, academic physicians were expected to excel in all 3 areas, even though criteria for promotion typically emphasized accomplishments in research, paying little attention to faculty members' educational contributions. Tracks for clinician educators have done much to rectify this situation,1-2 with explicit guidelines for promotion on the basis of educational scholarship.3
With widespread interest in quality improvement (QI) and patient safety, a new challenge exists in academic medicine, namely acknowledging the contributions of faculty members who excel in these areas. These faculty members range from clinician scientists with full-time research programs focused on health care quality to more operationally oriented faculty who lead local QI projects. However, most faculties of medicine do not have mechanisms to encourage the development of faculty engaged in QI activities. In this . . . [Full Text of this Article] The Need for Faculty Engaged in QI
Author Affiliations: Department of Medicine, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Center, and the University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
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