QIPS Council has been formed to provide resident leaders opportunities for new strategies and tools to improve the quality of care for their patients. Our overall objective is to create a House Staff Council at each of our respective health care institutions, to report adverse events and create system changes to prevent them. We will design system and quality improvement projects that can be share
d across institutions and aim to achieve best practices. We will seek education in using the appropriate tools needed to target quality improvement and patient safety initiatives. Additional skills learned will be in medical writing, publishing, and research. The group will meet quarterly and assess the progress on our objectives, define support needs for fellowship and education opportunities. Meetings will be held every six weeks via on-line Google groups and every quarter with in-person meetings. QIPS Council will work together to instill change at our institutions and report quality outcome measures and process innovations. We will publish a resident newsletter that highlights House Staff Safety Council reporting and system improvement achievements.
