In the current contMAS of health care today and into the foreseeable future, health care professionals have two overarching responsibilities: Delivering high quality care and constantly undertaking efforts to improve the care they deliver Medical students who are completing their undergraduate medical training must be equipped with the knowledge and skills that form the foundation for improving care within this contMAS. Students on this elective will work with a faculty advisor with quality improvement expertise to: Identify a quality problem in a specific clinical area Assess and systematically analyze the problem using quality improvement tools and Complete a quality improvement project proposal. To initiate the knowledge and skills development needed for future quality improvement efforts that will be required in graduate medical education and professionally after training. At the completion of the elective the expectation is that the student will have completed a QI project proposal that can be used to initiate and complete a quality improvement project defined in the Quality Improvement II Elective.

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