2021 Curriculum learning syllabus: stage 2

Published: 09/02/2021

Safety & Quality Improvement

Stage learning outcomes

  • Able to lead a local quality improvement project
  • Applies the principles of patient safety in the hospital context

Key capabilities

A

Knows when and how to apply quality improvement science with the aim of improving services while maintaining patient safety

B

Recognises the factors influencing reliable care 

C

Demonstrates knowledge of variation with respect to interpreting measurement, understanding types of variation, and differentiating between expected and unwarranted variation

D

Utilises appropriate measurement techniques for improvement, and demonstrates whether a change has occurred and its impact

E

Contrasts 'data for assurance' and 'data for improvement' and uses both data appropriately

F

Uses simple proactive safety techniques to prevent harm to patients, including the assessment of likelihood and severity of risks

G

Matches expertise and resources to the level of clinical risk posed to patients

H

Describes the impact of anaesthetists’ actions on patient safety more broadly in the hospital and wider healthcare system

I

Describes the principles of medication safety

J

Explains the process of critical incident follow-up

 Examples of evidence

Experience & logbook:
  • involvement in QI activities within Anaesthetics department and experience of hospital wide QI and risk assessment.
Supervised Learning Events (SLEs) can be used to demonstrate:
  • leadership of local QI project
  • presentation of QI project results
  • implementation of QI project outcomes recognizing challenges eg sustainability, up-scaling, spreading
  • A-QIPAT
  • case(s) resulting in completion of incident form
  • observance of theatre safety practices such as Stop Before You Block, WHO checklist.
Personal Activities and Personal Reflections may include:
  • courses or eLearning: quality improvement methodology, medicines management, human factors
  • reflection on critical incident
  • involvement with critical incident investigations
  • attendance at quality improvement meetings

Cross links with other domains and capabilities

  • Professional Behaviours and Communication
  • Team working
  • Perioperative Medicine and Health Promotion
  • Resuscitation and Transfer
  • other specialty specific domains.