Important Leadership Skills and Benefits of Shared Leadership Training for Chief Residents: A Delphi Analysis.

Background: Chief residents (CRs) have pivotal educational and leadership roles in residency programs. The necessary CR leadership skills that transcend specialties have not been defined and most training on these skills occurs in silo.

Objective: The primary goal was to define leadership skills important for the general CR role.

Ensuring No Death Is Ignored: Development of a Hospital Mortality Review and Notification System.

Background And Objectives: Standardized review of mortalities may identify potential system improvements. We designed a hospitalwide identification, review, and notification system for inpatient pediatric mortalities.

Methods: Key stakeholders constructed a future state process map for identification and review of deaths.

Enhancing Resident Education by Embedding Improvement Specialists Into a Quality and Safety Curriculum.

Background: Quality improvement and patient safety (QIPS) curricula are critical in graduate medical education, yet barriers limit the educational experience and project outcomes.

Objective: To explore the impact of QIPS curricular enhancements and integration of continuous improvement specialists (CIS) by examining the A3 document, the primary project product and surrogate for project quality.

Methods: Since 2009, University of Michigan internal medicine and medicine-pediatric residents participate in a QIPS curriculum, which includes a 4-week group project.