Morbidity and mortality conference, grand rounds, and the ACGME's core competencies.

Full Abstract

Morbidity and Mortality (M&M) Conferences are an Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) mandated educational series that occur regularly at all institutions that have residency training programs. The potential for learning from medical errors, complications, and unanticipated outcomes is immense--provided that the focus is on education, as opposed to culpability. The education innovation described in this manuscript is the manner in which we have used the ACGME Outcome Project's 6 core competencies as the structure upon which the cases discussed at our M&M conference are framed. When presented at grand rounds in a novel format, M&M conference has not only maintained support for the quality improvement efforts in the Department, but has served to improve the educational impact of the conference.

Author information

Author/s: Kravet, Steven J (SJ); Howell, Eric (E); Wright, Scott M (SM);

Affiliation: Division of General Internal Medicine, Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA. skravet(-atsign-)jhmi.edu

Journal and publication information

Publication Type: Journal Article

Journal: Journal of general internal medicine (J Gen Intern Med), published in United States. (Language: eng)

Reference: 2006-Nov; vol 21 (issue 11) : pp 1192-4

Dates: Created 2006/10/09; Completed 2007/01/01; Revised 2009/02/24;

PMID: 17026729, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 3/9/2009, IMS Date: )

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