A National Survey of Quality Improvement Education in Physician Assistant Programs

The Journal of Physician Assistant Education : the Official Journal of the Physician Assistant Education Association
Oren BerkowitzMary L Warner

Abstract

Quality improvement (QI) is emerging as a leadership and career track for physician assistants (PAs). Information on how PA programs teach QI is sparse. This study aimed to define how PA programs are providing education in QI through a national program survey. Curriculum survey questions were deployed as a part of the 2014-2015 Physician Assistant Education Association program survey. Questions were grouped into 4 categories: QI champion, pedagogy, integration strategy, and curriculum content. Differences between groups were analyzed, and logistic regression models were built to explore associations. All 194 (100%) PA programs responded to the survey. There were 137 (70.6%) programs that were teaching QI. The median number of total instructional hours was 12 (interquartile range = 16, overall range = 109). There were 37 (27%) programs that were categorized as having a "mature curriculum." Mature curricula were significantly associated with a QI champion who is an expert from an outside department/institution (odds ratio [OR], 5.05; 95% confidence interval [CI], 1.14-22.33) and with programs that have a QI capstone or thesis project (OR, 3.66; 95% CI, 1.14-11.72) whose educational hours correlated more with experiential learning...Continue Reading

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