Quality and Safety Fellowship - David Blom Administrative Campus
The Accelerated Quality/Safety Fellowship is a 6-month hybrid program that accepts up to twenty OhioHealth providers each year. Over the course of this fellowship, you will be equipped with practical knowledge and skills in quality improvement and patient safety. As a fellow, you will become empowered to lead meaningful change in any medical setting, including leadership and faculty roles.
Program Structure
Didactic Sessions: Delivered via a hybrid of in-person and live virtual classes running for roughly 4 hours bi-weekly over a 6-month period (totaling 12 interactive sessions).
Core Curriculum: Covers high reliability organization (HRO) principles, leadership, health system operations, and faculty development.
Capstone: Participants must complete a practical capstone project aligned with OhioHealth safety and quality priorities.
What Our Fellows Say
“This fellowship offered an opportunity to learn the principles of quality improvement and patient safety in order to enact effective change, as well as be involved in medical education and hospital administration.”
Katie Baxter, DO
“This fellowship not only changed the trajectory of my career, it changed the way that I approach problem-solving and teaching in every aspect of my work as a physician and leader.”
Joseph Gladwell, MD
How We Will Support You
Our strong curriculum and unmatched experiences will be sure to set you up for success. But that’s not all. You will be supported by talented faculty, develop long-term friendships, and have resources available to you that can only be found at an organization like OhioHealth.
- Rotation Opportunities
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Your core curriculum will include work in the following areas:
- Improvement science
- Quality improvement
- Patient safety
- Health system operations
- Leadership
- Faculty development
Fellows who take a deeper dive into faculty development will:
- Learn teaching skills and curriculum design, implementation and evaluation.
- Teach residents and mentor their quality improvement and patient safety projects to completion.
- Complete the OhioHealth Junior Faculty Development course.
Fellows who take a deeper dive into leadership training will:
- Attend hospital and system quality improvement and patient safety committee meetings, clinical guidance councils, kaizen events, safety rounds, conferences and Medical Operation Team meetings.
- Complete the OhioHealth Physician Leadership Academy.
- Culture
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Our culture at OhioHealth is one of our greatest strengths. We operate as a family, and you will find a high level of camaraderie among OhioHealth fellows and faculty physicians. Many of our faculty volunteer their time because they are passionate about physician education. They want to see you succeed and get the most out of your training.
- Wellness
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We believe that wellness and resilience are imperative to being an effective physician. Riverside Methodist is a national leader in the provider wellness field. We regularly use the Mayo Clinic’s Well-Being Index to identify and address burnout and distress, provide a format for reflective groups, and offer proactive meetings with our Physician Health and Wellness group to help you manage stress.
- Outcomes and Placement
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Our fellows can be found within OhioHealth and across the United States. A high percentage of our fellows choose OhioHealth for their long-term career, having gained an appreciation for our culture and development opportunities.