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Faculty of Health Sciences

Department of Anesthesia

Quality Improvement & Patient Safety Fellowship

The fellowship’s educational strategy will involve both in-person, web-based teaching, and include a PS/QI project component that will be supervised and mentored by the fellowship director.

Quality Improvement & Patient Safety Clinical Fellow Brochure

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This educational framework is in line with the CanMEDS competencies that emphasize interactive, competency-based education as well as a focus on PS/QI that was recently added to the CanMEDS guidelines in 2015. 

All fellows will participate in quality improvement rounds, hospital and department based quality initiatives, national and international quality improvement conferences, and mentoring to produce scholarly publications.

Service commitment: 100 days per year (subject to change according to department fellowship policies). Fellows will be exposed to all clinical areas to broaden their exposure to quality improvement and patient safety opportunities. Academic time will be granted to encourage scholarly activities in quality improvement and patient safety.

Call commitment:  Although fellows are not on the call schedule, fellows may be expected to be available out of hours (evenings, nights and weekends).

Structure: Two days of the week will be protected academic time, devoted to the QI project, the remaining three days a week will involve clinical duties at HHS hospitals, with the focus of understanding QI and patient safety opportunities in everyday clinical work

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Hospital Site

Hamilton Health Sciences Corporation, McMaster University

Duration

12 months

Qualifications

FRCPC or eligibility and must be a qualified Anesthetist

Additional Requirements

Individuals with specific goals/interests would do well to begin discussion well in advance to permit adequate planning.

Goals & Objectives Learn More

The Quality Improvement & Patient Safety Goals & Objectives are attached.

Call Schedule

Weekly assignment schedule split (unevenly) into the below.  This is subject to change at the discretion of the Fellowship Director.

  • Subspeciality days [2 – 3 days] in specialty anesthesia. Fellows are assigned one-to-one with specialty anesthesia staff.
  • Service days [2 days] in the operating room performing adult anesthesia lists. Fellows are assigned to an OR list and operate independently while being covered by anesthesia staff operating in another adjacent OR
  • Non-clinical days (NCDs) or academic days [1 day]: This is granted according to the fellow’s academic engagement (research, teaching, journal clubs etc.)

On-call duty – on average:

  • 2 weekdays and 1 weekend per month
  • Fellows are assigned on-call at the Juravinski hospital from 5:00 pm- 8:00 am
  • Fellows are assigned with anesthesia staff working in the OR
  • The next day is post-call