ACP enhances quality of care through activities, resources, and programs, including educational and practice resources to facilitate implementation of evidence-based recommendations.
ACP also identifies the core conditions managed by internal medicine physicians, develops evidence-based recommendations for the care of patients with those conditions, and advocates for policies that enable high-quality, equitable care.
Educational Resources
Quality Improvement Curriculum
ACP's step-wise approach guides you through each stage of the QI journey from establishing the “what” and “why” for change to implementing and sustaining change. This online curriculum, developed by physicians for physicians and their teams, is offered as a series of four modules.
Physicians who complete this curriculum are eligible for up to 4 AMA PRA Category 1 CreditsTM and ABIM MOC points. Physicians are also eligible to earn patient safety credit.
Quality Improvement Leadership Training Videos
This training video series, "Best Practices in Engaging and Empowering Clinical Teams in Continuous Improvement," provides a step-by-step guidance based on ACP’s Quality Improvement approach, to help participants throughout their journey. Exclusive to ACP Members.
Additional educational resources designed to advance quality of care:
- High Value Care - ACP's High Value Care initiative aims to improve health, avoid harms, and eliminate wasteful practices.
- ACP Physician Peer Coaching - ACP Member-exclusive coaching services to support physicians in their quality improvement, well-being or career development efforts.
- Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Hub - Podcasts, video recordings, online interactive learning, and Annals of Internal Medicine learning activities focused on patient safety and quality improvement.
- Decision-Making for Patients with Multiple Chronic Conditions: Patient Priorities Care - Help patients identify their health priorities so that physicians can provide care that addresses what matters most to them.
- Promoting Health Equity Through Excellence in Diagnostic Decision Making - Target skills that promote health equity in clinical decision making.
- General Team Care Toolkit - ACP has developed this toolkit to share best practices and real-life examples of successful team-based clinical care models that include internal medicine physicians working with Nurse Practitioners (NPs) and Physicians Assistants (PAs) and other members of the clinical care team. This toolkit includes resources to help foster productive and purposeful internal medicine teams.
- Adult Immunization Hub - These resources are designed to help clinicians assess, understand and improve adult immunization rates and patient outcomes.
Clinical Guidelines & Recommendations
ACP's goal is to provide clinicians with recommendations based on the best available evidence; to inform clinicians of when there is no evidence; and finally, to help clinicians deliver the best health care possible.
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Performance Measurement
ACP is working actively in the field of performance measurement because we recognize its importance in the changing health care environment and want to shape its impact on Internal Medicine. ACP evaluates the performance measures used in payment, reporting, and quality improvement programs to ensure they are evidence-based, methodologically rigorous, and clinically relevant.