Providing safe, effective, efficient care to patients takes every member of the health care team working together to implement and deploy strategies for addressing diverse quality and safety issues faced by GI endoscopy units. Designed to educate physicians and non-physician staff on how to translate quality and safety concepts into everyday practice, this course will cover everything from the fundamental elements of a successful program, to emerging trends and evidence.

Through a mixture of didactic lectures and interactive sessions, this renowned quality course will empower participants with practical solutions that can be immediately deployed to improve quality and safety in any GI endoscopy setting (i.e., office, ASC, hospital). Participants will leave feeling prepared to build and maintain a top-notch quality assurance and performance improvement program.

• List 2-3 measures of quality in endoscopy (knowledge).
• Recognize techniques described to make your endoscopy unit more efficient and safer (comprehension).
• Indicate 1 method learned you could use to improve patient satisfaction in your endoscopy unit, specifically areas that aid in doctor-patient communication (comprehension).
• Define potential sources of infection from contact with various body fluids, transmissibility during endoscopic procedure, and the susceptibility to potential disinfectants (knowledge).
• Identify measures you could use within your unit quality assurance program and explain why (e.g., examples could include sedation and monitoring and unit (re)accreditation requirements) (Analysis).

COURSE DIRECTORS

Rahul Pannala, MD, MPH, FASGE
Mayo Clinic – Arizona
Scottsdale, AZ


Julie Yang, MD
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
New York, NY

FACULTY

Jason Dominitz, MD MHS FASGE

Jim Collins, BS RN CNOR

Sameer Islam, MD FASGE

Jennie Nguyen, MSN RN CSMRN

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Operating system: Windows 10+ 
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