WIHI - A Podcast from the Institute for Healthcare Improvement

Date: October 25, 2012 Featuring: Donald Goldmann, MD, Senior Vice President, Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) Kedar Mate, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College; Clinical Lead for Research and Development, IHI James Moses, MD, MPH, Pediatric Director of Quality and Safety, Boston Medical Center; Academic Advisor, IHI Open School for Health Professions Residency training in the US has long had the reputation of a rite of passage — a period when grueling hours on busy hospital floors are spent converting four years of medical school, and some clinical exposure, into real-time accountability for real patients who have sometimes serious and life-threatening medical conditions. However, a changing health care system now demands that residents develop the skills not just to diagnose and treat patients who are ill, but to protect them from harm and to reduce their chances of being readmitted. Residents need to know about managing chronic conditions and how