{
  "abstract": "Training in quality improvement (QI) and patient safety remains highly variable despite regulatory mandates. We describe a novel, intensive 5-day experiential QI education programme for postgraduate trainees that integrates real-world observation, brief didactic sessions and workshop-based improvement work, supplemented by creative storytelling and team-based development of campaign media products. First-year anaesthesia residents conducted over 100 structured operating room observations and interviews, collected quantitative and qualitative data on distractions and presented improvement proposals that they developed to institutional stakeholders along with narrative campaign videos. Postcourse evaluations demonstrated a significant increase in trainee confidence in QI methodology and presentation, with participants valuing the experiential and creative elements over traditional didactic instruction. This model demonstrates the feasibility, reproducibility and educational value of immersive, short-duration QI training in authentic clinical settings and suggests a promising alternative to longer, resource-intensive curricula.",
  "authors": [
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Cardiology, University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust, Coventry, UK"
      ],
      "name": "Robert Potter"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgery, The Royal London Hospital, London, UK",
        "Center for Bone and Joint Health, Queen Mary University of London Blizard Institute, London, UK"
      ],
      "name": "Siddarth Raj"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Anaesthetics, Birmingham Children’s Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Birmingham, UK"
      ],
      "name": "Leila Quffa"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Anaesthetics, University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, Birmingham, UK"
      ],
      "name": "Naginder Singh"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Cambridge, UK"
      ],
      "name": "Hannah Kiziltug"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust, Worthing, UK"
      ],
      "name": "Tanya Hall"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK"
      ],
      "name": "Wei-Lin Allen"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA",
        "Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA"
      ],
      "name": "Pratheeban Nambyiah"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA",
        "Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA"
      ],
      "name": "Matthew Heron"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA",
        "Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA"
      ],
      "name": "Cheng Ong"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA",
        "Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA"
      ],
      "name": "Satya Krishna Ramachandran"
    }
  ],
  "title": "Implementation of a brief intensive education programme in quality improvement",
  "uid": "250302ab-26cd-52d8-9cf3-d00d8a2799bb"
}