title: A framework for quality improvement and patient safety education in radiation oncology residency programs.
abstract: In training future radiation oncologists, we must begin to focus on training future QI specialists. Our patients are demanding better quality and safer care, and accrediting bodies are requiring it. We must equip radiation oncology trainees to be leaders in this new world. To that end, a QI/PS educational program should contain 2 components: a didactic portion focused on teaching basic QI tools as well as an overview of the quality and safety goals of the institution, and an experiential component, ideally a resident-led QI project mentored by an expert faculty member and that is linked to the department's and institution's goals.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, Florida. Electronic address: areyna@ufl.edu.
authors.forename: Anamaria
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Yeung
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, Florida.
authors.forename: Julie
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Greenwalt
mesh_terms: D003479:Curriculum / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D007396:Internship and Residency; D061214:Patient Safety; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care; D058996:Quality Improvement; D018787:Radiation Oncology / Q000193:education*