The goal of M and M conference is to provide a forum for staff and trainees to explore the management details of particular cases wherein morbidity and mortality occurred. In carefully reviewing the records and specifics of care, a primal goal of these sessions is to revisit errors to gain insight without blame or derision. Also, current literature is reviewed by participants of each session. This is a core requirement of all training programs under the Accreditation Council of Graduate Medic...

This activity is designed for Internal Medicine and all other specialties/fields. These lectures are a peer protected review of Department of Medicine cases related to morbidity or mortality and allow for improvement in practice patterns and care provided to patients in PAH. A primary goal of these sessions is to revisit errors to gain insight without blame or derision.

This conference will provide educational content related to quality improvement in healthcare and anesthesiology. Major themes include QI science, performance improvement science, feedback about safety events and implementation of best practices. We will review current departmental data and leverage the conference to amplify learning systems on transformation to a high reliability organization.

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

Using examples including organ transplantation and influenza, this course provides an overview of how clinicians and policymakers have approached the rationing of health care resources, as well as an ethical framework that can inform present and future rationing and resource allocation decisions. During the course, we delineate a system for ethically allocating resources based on 4 principles: Treating people equally. Favoring the worst off. Maximizing total benefits. Promoti...

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...

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.

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.