To help provide an environment where patient care is the main priority and residents, fellows, and other members of the interprofessional healthcare team are able to provide quality patient care. Quality patient care will be assured through review of peer-reviewed literature, multidisciplinary cooperation, and following of established clinical practice guidelines.

These sessions will bring content experts from many aspects of the University including Penn Medicine and CHOP to address relevant and contemporary issues in delivering care to medically underserved patient populations.

Neurosurgery Quality Conference provides a didactic learning opportunity for health care professionals to be exposed to advances in the fields of neurosurgery, neuroscience, preoperative and perioperative medicine, quality improvement, systems based practice and societal and community implications of neurosurgical practice. This educational activity is intended to provide the neurosurgical team with an opportunity to obtain new knowledge of technical and treatment advances and be aware of chang...

Review of interesting nuclear medicine / radiology cases, including rare pathology, infrequently performed studies, new radiotracers, and other educational material.

The goal of this case conference is to enhance understanding of diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of thoracic cancer.

Case review to enhance understanding of diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of plasma cell dyscrasias.

At a tertiary care center, we have access to a broad range of uncommon and problematic cases that have educational value to the broader radiology community. Previously, the best of these cases have been identified by faculty at HUP and reviewed internally in a series “peer learning conference” to illustrate pitfalls in interpretation as well as to showcase and educate others regarding “best practices”. These conferences have been highly valued by our faculty. We would now like to offer the sam...

This is a recurring multi-disciplinary tumor board to review thyroid cancer and thyroid neoplasm cases and provide team-based management recommendations.

The primary focus of the Primary Care Training Enhancement (PCTE) program is to train primary care clinicians to lead health care transformation and enhance community-based teaching to promote better primary care practice within underserved urban areas. The Complex Care Management Rounds (CCMR) is an interdisciplinary case review process for primary care providers who share complex patients. The purposes of the CCMR are to expose community-based primary care providers to integrated, longitud...

OBGYN Quality Forum is a recurrent event that provides an opportunity for ongoing review of our inpatient clinical practices. During these sessions we review practice patterns and we engage in interdisciplinary discussion surrounding selected cases, using quality improvement tools, to improve communication among health care providers and staff. Through these discussions we create and promote initiatives to improve patient safety, reduce medical errors, and encourage outstanding communication a...