1. How to improve quality: “do I educate everyone, every year?”
Jarrod Dumpe, MD
Assistant Professor, Mercer University
Medical Center Navicent Health
Macon, Georgia
Southeastern Fracture Symposium 2019

2. assumption Increased Education/knowledge leads to increased quality

3. Knowledge Doubling Curve
Knowledge Growth
Knowledge Doubling Curve
Created by Buckminster Fuller in 1982
Not all knowledge areas double at the same rate
Current predictions are that ALL knowledge is
updated every decade
Exponential growth is only expected to increase

4. Do I educate? And if so, when and where?
Quality and Education
Do I educate? And if so, when and where?
Time requirement
In clinic?
In the OR?
At courses?

5. Do I educate? And if so, who do I educate?
Quality and Education
Do I educate? And if so, who do I educate?
Residents
Fellows
Xray techs
Scrub Techs
Nurses

6. I am going to educate, now what? Types of Learners:
Quality and Education
I am going to educate, now what?
Know your learner
Types of Learners:
Most are some degree of all 3, but
lean towards one predominantly
Audio
Visual
Tactile

7. I am going to educate, how do I teach?
Quality and Education
I am going to educate, how do I teach?
Didactic
Simulation
Virtual Reality
Cadaver
OR Theatre

8. Quality and Education I am educating; How do I assess outcomes?
Feedback (Reaction)
Test Scores (Learning)
Milestones (Behavior)
Surgical table set up (Behavior)
Radiation exposure (Behavior/Results)
Measurements of Quality (Results)
Dependent on what your initial goal was

9. TaKE HOME Questions Am I going to educate? Who am I going to educate?
How do they learn?
What methods should I use to teach them?
How do I assess how successful I was in what I set out to accomplish?