Keck Medicine of USC 1st Annual Medical Quality Symposium: Embrace, Engage, Empower

Friday, April 14, 2023, 9:30 AM - 4:30 PM, HSC Conference Center- USC Health Sciences Campus, Los Angeles, CA

AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ (5.75 hours), Non-Physician Attendance (5.75 hours)

The 1st Annual Keck Medicine of USC Medical Quality Symposium brings together influential leaders and experienced practitioners to explore today's challenges and insights and to share strategies and innovations in healthcare quality, patient safety and performance improvement. This is an opportunity for all health care professionals to embrace quality as a priority, engage in the study and implementation of improvement and empower all in our mission to deliver high quality, high value and culturally sensitive care.

This conference is intended for an interprofessional audience, including physicians, residents, nurses, allied health professionals and other members of the Keck Medicine of USC community.

Abstract Submission

We invite submission of abstracts that highlight the work in the following quality domains:

• Patient Safety: Interventions that aim to prevent and reduce risks, errors and harm that occur to patients during provision of health care.
• Clinical Quality Improvement: Quality improvement activities and interventions that seek to standardize processes and structure to reduce variation, achieve predictable results, and improve outcomes for patients, healthcare systems, and organizations.
• Healthcare Equity & Inclusion: Providing healthcare that does not vary in quality or effectiveness due to factors such as race and ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, physical abilities, geographic location, educational background or socioeconomic status.
• Access & Efficiency: Efficiency in healthcare achieves higher levels of performance in outcomes and outputs relative to the consumption of resources consumed. Avoiding waste of equipment, supplies, ideas, time and energy.

Call for Abstracts:

Please click here to download the Call for Abstracts form and submit to [email protected]. 

Top scoring abstracts will be invited to give oral presentations as part of conference programming. Achievement Awards will be conferred to the topmost abstract in each domain.

1. Discuss quality improvement models and the identification of evidence-based practices to improve quality and patient safety.
2. Identify the impact of health equity and disparities on patient care delivery and outcomes
3. Describe at least one intervention to address social determinants that may be influencing patient outcomes.

The Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California designates this Live Activity activity for a maximum of 5.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™.  Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

 

The Keck School of Medicine Healthcare System School of Medicine adheres to ACCME Criteria, Standards and Policies regarding industry support of continuing medical education. Disclosure of faculty and their commercial relationships will be made prior to the activity.

Mitigation of Relevant Financial Relationships

Keck School of Medicine Continuing Medical Education adheres to the ACCME’s Standards for Integrity and Independence in Accredited Continuing Education. Any individuals in a position to control the content of a CE activity, including faculty, planners, reviewers or others are required to disclose all relevant financial relationships with ineligible entities (commercial interests). All relevant conflicts of interest have been mitigated prior to the commencement of the activity.

Friday, April 14, 2023