Using Dashboards to Support Continuous Quality Improvement in Undergraduate and Graduate Medical Education.

Like other complex systems, medical education programs require a systematic continuous quality improvement (CQI) approach to drive effective improvement. Accreditation bodies in both undergraduate medical education (UME) and graduate medical education (GME) require programs to have effective CQI processes. Dashboards facilitate visualization and tracking of key metrics that impact medical education programming, thus driving excellence.

Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis Case Study: A Process for Understanding and Addressing Bias in Clerkship Grading.

In 2018, in response to a news story featuring the Icahn School of Medicine's decision to eliminate its chapter of Alpha Omega Alpha (AOA) due to perceived racial inequities, students at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis (WUSM) brought similar concerns to leadership. WUSM leadership evaluated whether students' race, ethnicity, and gender were associated with their receipt of honors in the 6 core clerkships, key determinants of AOA selection.