Using systems-based practice to integrate education and clinical services

Abstract

The authors describe one institution's strategies to implement the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education's (ACGME) Outcomes Project requirements while simultaneously exploring and implementing standards of quality healthcare as endorsed by the Institute of Medicine's (IOM) Crossing the Quality Chasm (2001). Of real interest, application of the authors’ institution's paradigm is identical to many of the parameters for system competence as recommended in the IOM's April 2003 report, Health Professions Education: A Bridge to Quality (2003).