The International Forum was a great time to meet the representatives from our "sister" LPMR program in Sweden. The link to their program is listed here in swedish. We look forward to collaborating with this great group of people as they start their exciting new journey!Sunday, March 22, 2009
sister program in sweden
The International Forum was a great time to meet the representatives from our "sister" LPMR program in Sweden. The link to their program is listed here in swedish. We look forward to collaborating with this great group of people as they start their exciting new journey!
IHI berlin
Lisa Pastel recently presented her work in Berlin, Germany at the International Forum on Quality and Safety in Health Care. Her poster was entitled " Improving the care for patients with diabetes at a rural primary care clinic by empowering Licensed Nursing Assistants with a flowsheet tool." Her research and travel was supported by the DHMC Quality Research Grant Program.
Lisa Pastel with Paul Batalden, Program Director for the LPMR.Thursday, March 12, 2009
PRB Meeting
The Practicum Review Board met Monday, March 9 at DHMC. Two LPM-1 residents presented their formative presentations.
First up was Sharon Alroy-Preis - Fever to first dose: decreasing time to antibiotic administration. Sharon's project working in multiple microsystems to help decrease time from positive blood culture to first dose of antibiotics. She had a lot of supporters from the pharmacy who are also looking at this issue internally. Sharon had a tremendous amount of interesting data and was enthusiastically given the go-ahead to proceed. Looking forward to her summative presentation later in the Spring!
Next was Erin Meyer - Improving the safety of blood transfusions at DHMC. Erin's project is focused specifically on platelets and trying to elucidate why so many of these transfusions do not adhere to established transfusion medicine guidelines. Her microsystems include transfusion medicine and an inpatient unit at DHMC. There was a great discussion on the quality of evidence available surrounding the actual guideline and hopes that Erin will either confirm accepted practice or expand understanding of appropriate platelet transfusion goals. Erin will be finishing up her pathology residency before she starts LPM-2 so she has some time to lay ground work before her summative.
Of note - an LPMR graduate, Auden McClure was one of Erin's reviewers. It is great to see graduates of our program staying involved as coaches and mentors.
Later this week the RAC is meeting - updates to come!
First up was Sharon Alroy-Preis - Fever to first dose: decreasing time to antibiotic administration. Sharon's project working in multiple microsystems to help decrease time from positive blood culture to first dose of antibiotics. She had a lot of supporters from the pharmacy who are also looking at this issue internally. Sharon had a tremendous amount of interesting data and was enthusiastically given the go-ahead to proceed. Looking forward to her summative presentation later in the Spring!
Next was Erin Meyer - Improving the safety of blood transfusions at DHMC. Erin's project is focused specifically on platelets and trying to elucidate why so many of these transfusions do not adhere to established transfusion medicine guidelines. Her microsystems include transfusion medicine and an inpatient unit at DHMC. There was a great discussion on the quality of evidence available surrounding the actual guideline and hopes that Erin will either confirm accepted practice or expand understanding of appropriate platelet transfusion goals. Erin will be finishing up her pathology residency before she starts LPM-2 so she has some time to lay ground work before her summative.
Of note - an LPMR graduate, Auden McClure was one of Erin's reviewers. It is great to see graduates of our program staying involved as coaches and mentors.
Later this week the RAC is meeting - updates to come!
Monday, March 2, 2009
New President for Dartmouth
Dr. Jim Yong Kim was named as the new President-elect of Dartmouth College (includes DMS) today. He is a physician who was one of the founders of Partners in Health and headed up the HIV/AIDS division of WHO. His wife is a pediatrician and gave birth to their second son three days ago.
What do you think? Do you think this will raise the profile of DMS and TDI? Where does quality fit in when we talk about global health?
What do you think? Do you think this will raise the profile of DMS and TDI? Where does quality fit in when we talk about global health?
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