Med Qips Takes Off At Georgetown Medical School

Self-styled every bit "the first-ever gild for patient security at Georgetown Medical School," MED QIPS is upward together with running!  Medical Students for Quality Improvement together with Patient Safety bring ready a destination of raising awareness together with fostering advocacy for patient security at the medical schoolhouse level.  This is an exciting footstep forward, partially coming out of the students' participation at the Telluride Patient Safety Summer Camp this yesteryear year--but actually derived from the students' ain feel of role on these matters.

Some of the organizers are seen inwards the moving-picture present above, from left: Sam McAleese, Elissa Falconer, Natalie Medvedeva, together with Brian Daily. Absent are Daliha Aqbal together with Jameson Hollomon.

They bring iii sets of goals:

Learning:  Organize activities to ameliorate medical pupil agreement of QIPS issues;
Medical Education: Incorporate patient saftey concepts into the medical curriculum; and
Change: Create a patient security civilization of accountability, transparency together with mindfulness amid medical students.

They are planning celluloid screenings, speakers, query opportunities, together with social events.  Get inwards affect amongst them yesteryear electronic mail at MedQIPS [at] gmail [dot] com or view the Facebook page at GUSOM MedQIPS.

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