This is a regularly scheduled series meeting that is scheduled the first Tuesday of each month. The series content is for our Provider Builder program. Provider Builders are clinicians who engage with PennChart and Epic processes and understand the enterprise goal of organizational improvement. Clinical content for the meeting involves all clinical settings in the health system. Topics are structured to address gaps in patient care, education needs to manage those gaps, and review outcomes o...

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 change...

As death rates from substance use disorders escalate, clinicians seek knowledge and awareness of opioid stewardship practices: approaches to opioid alternatives and judicious use of opioids in the treatment of painful conditions. Additional focus will be on prevention of substance use disorders and identification and treatment of substance use disorders with evidence based medications. Participants will understand the impact of the evolving drug supply in supporting patients with substance use ...

Conducted by the Cell Therapy and Transplant (CTT) Program or in conjunction with the Program allow the exchange of information regarding individual patient care, standards of care, resolution of issues, identification of quality improvement opportunities. The structure allows open and constructive communication between the many departments caring for these complex patients.

The Division of Gastroenterology strives to provide its students, residents, fellows, PA's, faculty and non-faculty staff with the most up-to-date information about the practices of clinical gastroenterology and Hepatology. Clinical Case Conference is aimed at educating the GI clinical team on rare, complicated, or novel patient presentations, Endoscopy CQI is aimed at a higher level of case conferences.

A monthly morbidity and mortality conference which will present inpatient and/or outpatient case presentations to order to discuss management decisions, provide education, and work to develop and implement solutions for both provider and systemic inadequacies which have led to suboptimal patient outcomes through interprofessional discussion.

HUP Quality and Safety Grand Rounds is a bimonthly educational session for all HUP Staff focused on quality and safety. We will provide evidence-based information and best practices on a variety of important areas. Topics will be presented by an interprofessional team and will be selected jointly driven by the areas of highest quality and safety opportunity. One example was prevention of hospital acquired infections. We presented local data, evidence based practice information and tangible wa...

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 conferences” 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 same...

This conference is for the Thoracic team. The goal of this case conference for the Thoracic team is to enhance understanding of diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of thoracic cancer.

The moderator brings current cardiology cases with challenging management components before a group of regular participants with extensive clinical experience in the field of cardiology. The broader audience is encouraged to participate in the discussion. In the process of discussion, less experienced clinicians are able to observe the approaches of more experienced colleagues. Newer approaches to treatment are also discussed in the context of the cases.