Jennifer S. Myers, MD, FACP, FHM
- Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine at University of Pennsylvania
- Academic hospitalist at University of Pennsylvania
- Director of Quality and Safety Education at the Perelman School of Medicine
- Associate Designated Institutional Official for Quality and Safety in Graduate Medical Education at the Perelman School of Medicine
- Director of Training Programs in Penn’s Center for Healthcare Improvement and Patient Safety
- In 2012, she led the development of the Society of Hospital Medicine’s (SHM’s) Quality and Safety Educators Academy— the first national faculty development program designed to provide faculty with educational and professional development strategies to help fill the current unmet need for quality and safety educators in our nations’ medical schools and teaching hospitals.
Learning Objectives:
- Describe the history of the quality improvement and patient safety movement and its influence on health professions education
- Consider the evolving perspectives of academic clinicians relating to quality improvement
- Introduce new and emerging concepts in quality and safety education
*This activity has been approved for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit