Blessed Are the Flexible: The George Team

An Experiential Interdisciplinary Quality Improvement Education Initiative

“…Some of the challenges we experienced in creating this curriculum have been encountered in other interdisciplinary QI education initiatives. In addition to the traditional academic separation of disciplines, these included separate buildings, schedules, 11,[20][21][22] The learners were freed from the majority of their clinical responsibilities during the period of the rotation, except for obligatory work shifts and continuity clinics. Other interventions that aided the success of the curriculum were the involvement of a multidisciplinary faculty, choice of a QIP that was meaningful to all groups of learners, exercises that were fun and promoted team building, and faculty who functioned as coaches and early on acknowledged that they did not have all the answers in the process.…”

“…Other interventions that aided the success of the curriculum were the involvement of a multidisciplinary faculty, choice of a QIP that was meaningful to all groups of learners, exercises that were fun and promoted team building, and faculty who functioned as coaches and early on acknowledged that they did not have all the answers in the process. 22 The close mentorship and collaboration of the learners with the institutional QI leadership ensured appropriate project design, implementation, and replication of results into workflow processes and care delivery.…”