About Us
About HEQSP
As a member of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) Pursuing Excellence, Healthcare Disparities Collaborative, Michigan Medicine has developed the Healthcare Equity and Quality Scholars Program to equip house officers with the skills they need to engage in systems-based approaches to deliver equitable, safe, and high-quality care throughout their careers.
The Healthcare Equity and Quality Scholars Program is a longitudinal healthcare disparities curriculum incorporating cultural humility, social determinants of health and quality improvement. This 10-month certificate program is designed to further develop house officers into leaders and change agents for healthcare equity.
Goals and objectives for this program include:
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Our goals and objectives for the learners include:
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Understand and discuss, through the mechanism of cultural humility, how cultural identity affects health and healthcare.
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Develop leadership skills to become change agents for healthcare equity and explore ways to positively lead change and influence healthcare inequities.
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Define, understand, and identify healthcare disparities in the CLE.
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Identify how healthcare equity is foundational to quality care.
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Apply social determinants of health in healthcare delivery.
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Understand and discuss how implicit bias and structural racism/sexism are drivers of healthcare disparities.
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Apply Quality Improvement (QI) tools and concepts to a healthcare related case study that focuses on decreasing health disparities, using standard Michigan Medicine QI processes.
This effort aims to strengthen the Michigan Medicine framework, and fulfill the ACGME Common Program Requirements, for engaging clinical learners in quality improvement to address health care disparities within the clinical learning environment (CLE)—shaped by the findings of the ACGME’s Clinical Learning Environment Review (CLER) and our aims to better identify opportunities to improve the care and outcomes for vulnerable patient populations:
*IV.B.1. e) Interpersonal and Communication Skills
Residents must demonstrate competence in: Common Program Requirements (Residency) ©2020 Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) Page 22 of 55 IV.B.1.e). (1). (a) communicating effectively with patients, families, and the public, as appropriate, across a broad range of socioeconomic and cultural backgrounds; (Core)
*IV.B.1. f) Systems-based Practice
Residents must demonstrate an awareness of and responsiveness to the larger context and system of health care, including the social determinants of health, as well as the ability to call effectively on other resources to provide optimal health care.
*VI.A.1. b) Quality Improvement
Common Program Requirements (Residency) ©2020 Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) Page 38 of 55 VI.A.1.b). (1). (a) Residents must receive training and experience in quality improvement processes, including an understanding of health care disparities.
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Marcia A. Perry, M.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine
Associate Chair, DEI, Department of Emergency Medicine
Director, House Officer Programs, Office of Health Equity and Inclusion
Director, Health Equity Visiting Clerkship
Andrew J. Dering, M.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Anesthesiology
Medical Director of Quality Improvement and Patient Safety Training, Office of Graduate Medical Education
Ali Von Au Douglas
Program Manager, Healthcare Equity and Quality Scholars Program