Residency & Faculty Practicum
in Quality Improvement
The ABIM Foundation provided funds to 15 residency programs to evaluate the feasibility of using ABIM's Preventive Cardiology Practice Improvement Module (PC-PIM) to teach and evaluate competence in practice-based learning and improvement and systems-based practice in residency training. The study examined the effects of the PC-PIM on the practice, knowledge and attitudes of residents toward quality improvement and guidelines for preventing future heart attacks and strokes. Various publications are pending. Please click here to access a white paper about the findings based on early use of PIMs in the training setting.
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"In order to prepare residents for practice and for things like pay-for-performance, quality improvement will be essential to their success. I wanted to be able to teach them—to 'grease the skids' of QI so that they will be able to successfully navigate the system."
Eric Scher, MD
Program Director
Henry Ford Health System
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