A post-residency, one-year position offered in select VA medical centers
The VA Tennessee Valley Healthcare System has two positions available in the VA Chief Resident in Quality and Safety (CRQS) program.
The VA Chief Resident in Quality and Safety is a non-accredited, post-residency one-year position offered in select VA Medical Centers including the VA Tennessee Valley Healthcare System.
The Chief Resident in Quality and Safety program’s objective is to develop emerging physician leaders in Quality Improvement and Patient Safety through a mix of didactic and experiential learning.
The VA Tennessee Valley Healthcare System (TVHS) in Nashville and Murfreesboro offers two CRQS positions, one in Hospital Medicine and one in Emergency Medicine. This program is built in partnership with the Geriatric Research, Education, and Clinical Center (GRECC) along with the Quality Safety and Value Service at TVHS and its academic affiliate at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
The Chief Residents must have completed their primary residency training and be board eligible for their specialty. They must qualify for credentialling and privileging as a licensed independent practitioner in their specialty. The CRQS will also be appointed as Instructor at the academic affiliate, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, in their respective departments.
Program Curriculum
The VUMC VA Chief Resident in Quality and Safety (CRQS) develops expertise in the use of quality improvement methods, implementation science, patient safety, and High Reliability Organization (HRO) principles through formal didactic and experiential learning based on quality improvement projects.
After learning how to teach quality improvement, the CRQS will teach quality improvement design strategies to junior faculty, residents, and medical students. During the year, the CRQS will participate in the national VA CRQS curriculum and national Quality and Safety conferences. The culmination of the CRQS project is being highlighted through scholarly work.
Through this program, each CRQS time allocation is as follows:
- Didactic and Experiential Learning (50%)
- QI (QUALITY IMPROVEMENT) Teaching (25%)
- Clinical Effort (25%) in respective clinical areas
Contact us:
- Kelly Sopko MD, site co-director, Hospital Medicine CRQS, email: kelly.l.sopko@vumc.org
- Michael Ward MD, PhD, MBA, site co-director, Emergency Medicine CRQS , email: michael.j.ward@vumc.org
Program Leadership
Kelly Sopko, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine
Site co-director, VA Chief Resident in Quality and Safety, Hospital Medicine
Michael Ward, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine
Site co-director, VA Chief Resident in Quality and Safety, Emergency Medicine