Supporting Care Transformation Through a Comprehensive Graduate Medical Education Curricular Program in a Department of Internal Medicine.

Background: The imperative to train physicians in skills required to lead care transformation is increasingly recognized, yet few Graduate Medical Education (GME) programs exist to meet this need.

Aim: Describe the development, outcomes, and lessons learned from a novel GME care transformation curricular program.

Setting: Department of Internal Medicine (IM) at Dell Medical School at The University of Texas, Austin.

Resident-led improvement project to screen for primary hyperaldosteronism in patients with resistant hypertension in an outpatient clinic.

Clinical practice guidelines recommend screening for primary hyperaldosteronism (PH) in patients with resistant hypertension. However, screening rates are low in the outpatient setting. We sought to increase screening rates for PH in patients with resistant hypertension in our Veterans Affairs (VA) outpatient resident physician clinic, with the goal of improving blood pressure control.

Autologous blood transfusion during emergency trauma operations.

Hypothesis: Intraoperative cell salvage (CS) of shed blood during emergency surgical procedures provides an effective and cost-efficient resuscitation alternative to allogeneic blood transfusion, which is associated with increased morbidity and mortality in trauma patients.

Design: Retrospective matched cohort study.

Setting: Level I trauma center.