July 2023 Faculty Development Tip

MITE Monthly Tip July 2023 Rebecca Harvey, MD Tips for Teaching Procedural Skills: The Walker Peyton Process and Beyond Acquisition of procedural skills is an important component of education across the spectrum of health care professions. Such skills range from the fundamentals of appropriate handwashing, to maintenance of sterile technique,…

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June 2023 Faculty Development Tip

MITE Monthly Tip June 2023 Maxwell Afari, MD How can faculty members foster a supportive culture around breastfeeding or milk expression? The importance of breastfeeding is well known. The standard recommendation is for infants to be fed exclusively breast milk for their first six months of life, with continued breastfeeding…

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Strategy Alignment: Working together to achieve common goals

June 2023 MITE Hot Topic: Strategy Alignment: Working together to achieve common goals Author: Joyce Doyle, Performance Improvement Specialist, Operational Transformation Learning Objectives: Understand the 4 major steps of strategic alignment Know when and how to start a Catchball conversation Connect daily improvement work and organizational goals MaineHealth has been…

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May 2023 Faculty Development Tip

MITE Monthly Tip May 2023 Nora Fagan MSN, BScN, RN, CMSRN Interdisciplinary Team Communication The inpatient hospital environment is fast paced and at times chaotic.  Multiple interdisciplinary teams are constantly attempting to collaborate to provide high quality care that leads to positive patient outcomes. The lack of cohorting of patients…

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April 2023 Faculty Development Tip

MITE Monthly Tip April 2023 Amy Moore, MLIS Enhancing Curricula with Information Literacy Frameworks Information literacy is defined as, “the set of integrated abilities encompassing the reflective discovery of information, the understanding of how information is produced and valued, and the use of information in creating new knowledge and participating…

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Eight Wastes in Health Care

March 2023 MITE Hot Topic: Eight Wastes in Health Care Author: Katie Mahannah, Program Manager for MH Performance Improvement. Learning Objectives: Identify the eight wastes in health care. Recognize value-adding vs non value-adding steps in any process. Determine opportunities to remove waste and streamline processes.   The Waste Wheel Within…

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March 2023 Faculty Development Tip

MITE Monthly Tip March 2023 Abtin K. Farahmand, MD Maximizing the Academic Conference Experience: Tips for Your Career Toolkit It is hard for many who attend large academic conferences on how to maximize one’s time. Often there are several lectures, and events occurring at once and participants may feel overwhelmed…

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December 2022 Faculty Development Tip

December 2022 Faculty Development Tip December 2022 Maria Egger, PA-C Fostering Team Problem Solving and Learning as an Antidote to Burnout Several weeks ago, I was listening to members of our healthcare team trying to determine the cause of a deficiency in routine patient care.  A patient has been found…

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Informing healthcare quality through patient focus groups

QI/PS Hot Topic – November 2022 Informing healthcare quality through patient focus groups Angie Marshall, MS, LSSBB – Improvement Specialist II, MMC Performance Improvement Learning Objectives: Discuss the utility of patient focus groups in quality improvement Describe how to plan and conduct a patient focus group Identify ways to analyze…

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