Quality Improvement Patient Safety (QIPS) Fellowship

The QIPS Fellowship at Community Memorial is a one-year non-ACGME accredited junior faculty position designed to provide residency graduates with clinical, academic, operational, and administrative training in quality improvement, patient safety, and leadership development. This collaboration between our clinical and Quality Services departments provides an opportunity for early career physicians to become involved in medical education and hospital administration and learn the skills to lead changes in health care.

The fellowship includes, but is not limited to:

• Introduction to Quality departmental structure, organizational structure and finances, operational systems (including patient care data systems and EHR), quality metrics, clinical outcome analysis, and regulatory compliance

• Participation in organizational committees engaged in quality and patient safety

• Participation in root cause analyses, analysis of patient event reporting, and other patient safety programs

• Leadership role in resident QIPS education and in facilitating alignment of residents’ QIPS projects with institutional QIPS initiatives

• Familiarity with the ACGME’s Clinical Learning Environment Review (CLER) Program and expectations for optimizing our clinical learning environment

• Scholarship, through designing and presenting/publishing one clearly defined mentored longitudinal project with the goal of organizational improvements

• Clinician-Educator role as either inpatient hospitalist with PIP and/or in academic medicine clinic

• Opportunity to attend a regional or national QIPS conference

This fellowship is available to internal candidates only. We accept applications on a rolling basis. To apply, please click here.

Deborah Carlson, MD, FACP
Fellowship Director

Questions? Contact Griselda Barrett at gbarrett@mycmh.org