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SIU GME Quality Improvement Poster Competition

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The SIU Graduate Medical Education Committee recently presented the 4th Annual SIU SOM Quality Improvement Poster Symposium and Competition. The event showcases residents’ and fellows’ quality improvement projects. Originally scheduled for April 8, the 2019-20 SIU QI:  Poster Symposium and Competition was held online this year. Monetary awards were given to the top three Quality Improvement projects:

    First place = $250

    Second place = $150

    Third place = $100

Submitted projects had to show initiative and commitment to improving systems and processes that directly and indirectly improve patient safety and quality of health care delivery. A panel of SIU SOM faculty and hospital administrators with expertise in quality improvement served as judges.

View the poster submissions for the 2019-2020 SIU GME QI Poster Competition

Congratulations to the winners!

 

 

1st Place:  “Increasing Efficiency through Delegation of Duties in a Developmental Disabilities Clinic” - Clayton Parks, MD; Ashima Datey-Chakrabarty, MD; Patricia Baumann, MD; Alborz Javadzadeh, MD; Jeffrey Bennett, MD, Psychiatry

 

2nd Place:  “Lean Six Sigma Approach to Improve Process Variation and Decrease Time-to-Surgery for Hip Fractures" - Austin Beason, MD; Evan Davis, PT, MS, MBA; Jennifer Quastler, RN, BSHA; Becky Douglas; Caitlin West; Carol Hafley, MHA, RN; Mark Wojdyla, MD; Ronald Romanelli, MD; Matthew Gardner, MD; Zak Gurnsey, MD; James Waymack, MD, Orthopedics

 

3rd Place: (right)  “Smoking Cessation Counseling,” Pejman Jamkhou, MD; Mark Scott, MD; Johnny Tenegra, MD, Decatur Family Medicine

 

3rd Place: (left)  “SIU Vascular Surgery: The Transition from Inpatient to Outpatient Management” - Shawn Poole, MD, MBA; Douglas Hood, MD; Safoora Choudry, MD; Tian Zhang, MD, Vascular Surgery

Thank you to Memorial Medical Center Foundation for their support of this event.

For additional information go to https://www.siumed.edu/siu-gme-quality-improvement-poster-competition.html.

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