title: Teaching the quality improvement process to junior medical students: the Nebraska experience.
abstract: To teach the continuous quality improvement (CQI) process to junior medical students at the University of Nebraska during their rural family medicine preceptorship, we designed and implemented a population health project in 1998. This project requires students to select a problem affecting a population in their preceptor's practice, analyze that problem, and suggest a solution or remediation using CQI principles. Support for the students during their project includes Web-based examples and readings. Results of this project have included national presentations and changes in several preceptors' practice patterns. This project has been well accepted by preceptors and students.
authors.affiliation: Department of Family Medicine, University of Nebraska, Omaha 68198-3075, USA. ppaulman@unmc.edu
authors.forename: Paul
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Paulman
authors.forename: Jim
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Medder
mesh_terms: D003479:Curriculum; D004504:Education, Medical, Undergraduate / Q000379:methods*; D005194:Family Practice / Q000193:education* / Q000592:standards; D006304:Health Status; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet; D009329:Nebraska; D011231:Preceptorship / Q000379:methods; D018794:Problem-Based Learning; D015397:Program Evaluation; D019035:Rural Health Services / Q000592:standards; D017749:Total Quality Management