There was a Scottish first when international staff took part in a special learning event.
The group of international medical graduates (IMGs) from across NHS Lanarkshire received a bespoke full-day teaching session on an Introduction to Quality Improvement.
The session, delivered by the Quality Improvement Team, was the first of its kind to be delivered solely to IMGs in Lanarkshire and the whole of NHS Scotland.
The session was designed to provide IMGs with an introduction to each stage of the quality improvement (QI) journey and the importance of QI in healthcare today. It gave them the knowledge, skills, tools and techniques that will help them get started on their QI learning, with opportunities throughout the session to apply it to various interactive exercises.
Feedback from IMGs highlighted that their understanding of QI was better, after starting the session with either limited or no knowledge.
Comments included:
“Thank you for arranging such a wonderful session. It was definitely very helpful and you have motivated me to do a QI project”
“Thank you so much for demystifying QI. For IMGs it is something completely new and we are very grateful for today’s session.”
Dr Farhat Mushtaq, Consultant in Emergency Medicine and Lead Clinical Trainer for IMGs, said, “I’m really grateful to the QI team for coming together to create a bespoke programme.
“I think the QI team have been very flexible at putting together a great programme to deliver such a session.”
The QI team are continuing to deliver training sessions to build capacity and capability in QI and the culture of continuous QI throughout the organisation. For further info contact: LQAQItraining@lanarkshire.scot.nhs.uk
