title: Training in quality and safety: the current landscape.
abstract: The current US health care environment requires and encourages the development and implementation of training programs focusing on quality improvement and patient safety. This article offers a new resource that details the basic characteristics of such physician-inclusive training programs. Specifically, program type, objectives, eligibility, cost, training length, and modality are aggregated and displayed to provide health care professionals with a new tool to facilitate individual education in the field of quality improvement and patient safety.
authors: Widener University, Chester, PA Andrew.Karasick@jefferson.edu.
authors: Andrew S
authors: AS
authors: Karasick
authors: Jefferson School of Population Health, Philadelphia, PA.
authors: David B
authors: DB
authors: Nash
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D007318:Inservice Training / Q000191:economics / Q000379:methods* / Q000458:organization & administration*; D009937:Organizational Objectives; D061214:Patient Safety / Q000592:standards*; D010820:Physicians; D058996:Quality Improvement / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000592:standards; D011787:Quality of Health Care; D013997:Time Factors
keywords: health care; quality; safety; training