Practical strategies to enhance resident engagement in clinical quality improvement.

Background: Engaging residents in meaningful quality improvement (QI) is difficult. Challenges include competing demands, didactics which lack connection to meaningful work, suboptimal experiential learning, unclear accountability, absence of timely and relevant data, and lack of faculty coaches and role models. Various strategies to address these challenges for engagement have been described, but not as a unified approach.

Is It Painful to Manage Chronic Pain? A Cross-Sectional Study of Physicians In-Training in a University Program.

Background: Prescribing opioids for chronic non-cancer pain (CNCP) is a challenge due to associated risks from abuse, addiction and adverse effects. We surveyed resident physicians on their knowledge, attitude and practices in opioid prescription practices in the ambulatory setting and conducted an educational module to address their knowledge gaps.

Methods: A phase 1 survey assessed knowledge, attitudes and practices of residents in the out-patient management of CNCP with opioids.