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Using the Healthcare Matrix with Interns and Medical Students as a Tool to Effect Change
Southern Medical Journal, 08/21/09

Quinn D et al. – The Healthcare Matrix is a tool developed at Vanderbilt University Medical Center which assesses the care of patients using the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) competencies and the Institute of Medicine (IOM). This article will present one Matrix case, how quality improvement (QI) tools and methods were utilized and what resulting improvements were made.

• Given their integral role in the healthcare system, it is important that house staff are provided the tools and authority to enact systems changes.
• The Healthcare Matrix is an effective way to provide structured assessment of care while teaching quality improvement (QI) methodology to beginning house staff.
• By allowing interns and medical students to participate in the quality improvement process, they are actively fulfilling specific ACGME core competencies, helping their institution comply with the Institute of Medicine's six Aims for Improvement, and most importantly, learning to improve future patient care.

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