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EDUCATION
INNOVATION PROJECT
OVERVIEW
“A
renowned professor once visited master Nan-in to learn about Zen.
The master politely poured him some tea, but didn’t stop pouring.
The cup overflowed all over his guest. The professor shouted in distress
for him to stop. The master replied, ‘The cup is full of tea
and can contain no more unless I first empty it. In the same way your
mind is full of ideas and there is no room for my teaching, unless
you empty it.’”
Unlearning: It Is Time David C. Leach, MD Executive Director ACGME
Bulletin
In 2005, The Residency Review Committee (part of the American Council for Graduate Medical Education) sent out invitations to internal medicine programs across the country to submit proposals for the Education Innovation Project or “EIP.” The EIP is a pilot project that allows qualified programs (those residency programs that have received two consecutive 4-year accredidations) to “think outside the box” when it comes to developing curriculum for their residents. Of the 51 programs who submitted applications, SIU became one out of 17 IM residency programs selected to be part of the first cadre of programs to participate in this exciting opportunity. (Find a complete list of institutions participating in the EIP on the National EIP Programs page.)
The main purpose of the EIP is to facilitate innovations in graduate medical education that:
1) Integrate medical education, resident educational outcomes, and quality improvement in patient care (the “Quality Agenda”)
2) Advance competency-based education and outcomes-based assessment (the “Outcomes Agenda”)
The main objectives are:
1) Creating innovations in residencies directed toward advancing safe, high-quality patient-centered care, and competency-based residency education;
2) Facilitating change in the environment of residency training to clinical care systems that foster high quality care and competency-based education;
3) Facilitating development of educational and evaluation tools that graduate medical education can disseminate and utilize broadly;
4) Developing training models that better serve the professional needs and ultimate career goals of trainees.
During the academic year 2006-2007, project leaders Andrew Varney, MD, Program Director, Susan Hingle, MD, Christine Todd, MD, and Maureen Francis, MD, along with the residency staff, and department faculty have been planning and implementing the first phase of the EIP at SIU in Springfield.
Nationally, the Southern Illinois University School of Medicine (SIUSOM) EIP members are presenting a poster at the mid-west meeting of the EIP at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota during the third week of March. Other presentations by the SIU EIP committee leaders include presenting their innovative ideas at the APDIM meeting in California during April and at the ACGME meeting in March in Orlando, Florida. See the Member Honors section for details.
View
the EIP Committees and Subgroups
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