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Welcome! The purpose of the Quality Improvement Science Guide is to provide trainees with the tools and guides necessary to execute an impactful and sustainable quality improvement project. The Guide can be used as either a step-by-step guide in creating quality improvement projects, or as-needed toolkit to access templates and have your questions answered. Please watch the introduction video below to learn more about why this guide was created. Below the video you will find links to each topic and this project's background and contributors.

Click here to download the Clinical Mentor Companion Guide to Resident Quality Improvement Projects.

We have separated the guide into seven modules, listed below. Within each section, there will be an outline of what to expect from the module. Please click on the tiles to explore further. You can find an overview of all the modules here.

Project Background

This work was funded by a MITE Education Innovation grant in 2019-2020, for a project entitled: “Developing & pilot testing training materials for residents and fellows for best practices for quality improvement and healthcare delivery science, with attention to healthcare disparities”. The work was initiated by the Division of Health Care Delivery Science, within the Department of Medicine at Maine Medical Center, and relied heavily upon work already underway by Dr. Deb Sepulveda in the Department of OB/GYN.

This work group is indebted to Hannah Martin, MD, TUSM Class of 2021, who performed the lion’s share of the work to bring this project to fruition as a toolkit for trainees.

Team members included:

Kathleen Fairfield, MD, MPH, DrPH (Project lead)
Hannah Martin, MD
Deb Sepulveda, MD
Isaac Stickney, MEd, CGS
Mark Parker, MD
Kalli Varaklis, MD
Deb Rothenberg, MD, PhD
Bob Trowbridge, MD
Jordan Peck, PhD
Ghassan Saleh, DMD, MS