The 11th Annual Symposium for Patient Safety and Quality Improvement (CQI) was held June 8 and attended by approximately 100 medical students, residents, faculty and UConn Health community members.
Sponsored by the Connecticut Area Health Education Center Program (CT AHEC) and the UConn School of Medicine, the CQI Symposium is the culmination of the quality improvement curriculum for the third-year medical students. During their internal medicine ambulatory experience, all students participate in designing, implementing and evaluating a quality improvement intervention targeting an opportunity for improvement identified at their site.
A total of 15 student and resident posters were featured. Judges for the CQI projects included representatives from John Dempsey’s Center for Bronchiectasis Care, epidemiology and infection control, quality program departments, Internal Medicine Residency Program, Center for Public Health and Health Policy/Correctional Managed Health Care, as well as the Department of Family Medicine.
The keynote speaker for the symposium was Dr. Robert Zavoski, a pediatrician and the medical director of medicaid programs for the Connecticut Department of Social Services. Zavoski utilized humor and practical examples to discuss the important role of quality improvement in practice, health policy and public health. Zavoski applauded all student and resident participants at the Symposium for their commitment to excellence and quality improvement.
First place award for resident poster:
“Reducing Readmissions in Patients with LACE Score ≥ 10 : Comparing Different Strategies “ (St. Francis/UConn Health); Bhavtosh Dedania, Arushi Khurana, Gurukripa Kowlgi, Nikhil Kapila, Victoria Forbes, Ausia Iqbal, Shaina Lynch, Khushboo Sheth, Joseph Fusco, Donna Pepito, Kaitlyn Guardino, Karen Zanoria, Anthony Yoder, Henry Igid, Amanda Kost, Kelly Mazurek, Dipen Khanapara, Amrita Panwala, Mamta Shah, Edgar Naut.
First place award for medical student poster:
“Instituting low dose CT screening for qualified individuals at the Brownstone APC clinic” (Hartford Hospital); Adarsha Selvachandran, Monica Townsend, Melissa Argraves, Christopher Hammel, Charles Ma, Ethan Talbot, Patrick Field, Corey Dwyer.