H. Winter Griffith Resident Scholarship

This award recognizes excellence in practice improvement involving patient-centered care by an outstanding family medicine resident or resident team. The award honors H. Winter Griffith, MD, who was an advocate for patient engagement through patient education. Thus, this award will recognize outstanding patient interaction, education, care, and outcomes by a resident or resident team in the family medicine medical home setting.

Details

Entries are limited to family medicine residents involved in quality improvement work focused on improving patient-centered care.

The practice improvement activity should document a change in: 1) patient knowledge, engagement, or self-management: 2) Team-based environment and systems of care; 3) Quality or safety of health care.
Ability to provide examples of patient-centered practice improvement activities include patient surveys, focus groups, motivational interviewing, self-management support, shared goal setting, health coaching, innovative use of media or communication technology, patient portals, e-visits, or behavior change activities.

Individuals who have received an award at the Conference on Practice & Quality Improvement within the past 3 years are not eligible to submit for the award

Entries will be judged on the following:

The extent to which the project emphasized improvements in patient centered care
Effectiveness, or outcomes of the project
Feasibility of the improvement project for dissemination to other health centers or systems

A $1,000 scholarship will be awarded to the winning resident or resident team, along with an award certificate, and a complimentary registration (or up to two complimentary registrations will be provided for a resident team) to the Conference on Practice & Quality Improvement. The resident(s) will also be recognized at the conference, and invited to present their work as a distinguished poster.

The award winner(s) will be notified in late July.

Focus	Scholarship Criteria
Scope of improvement activity	The practice improvement activity should document a change in: Patient knowledge, engagement, or self-management, Team-based environment and systems of care and/or Quality or safety of health care.
Application of PI methodology	Applicant must demonstrate what performance improvement methodologies were used and include a clearly identified patient-centered problem, the “aim(s)” for improvement, and what measures were selected. In addition, the application should include how data was used. Examples: How measurements and iterative tests of change were made Tactics for change management Approach to team-based collaborative learning
Data showing improvement	Application must include data showing meaningful patient-centered improvement over time (for instance, through the use of run charts or data tables).
Eligibility	Individuals who have received an award at the Conference on Practice Improvement within the past 3 years are not eligible to submit for the award.

Send the following, as a single pdf, to Melissa Abuel at mabuel@stfm.org.

Resident(s) name, residency program, address, email address, and phone number
One-paragraph description of the activity (250-word maximum) for use in the conference brochure
A description of the quality improvement work, including the objectives and the outcomes of the project, including:
- Applicant must demonstrate what performance improvement methodologies were used and include a clearly identified patient-centered problem, the “aim(s)” for improvement, and what measures were selected.
- Application should include how data was used. Examples: How measurements and iterative tests of change were made; Tactics for change management; Approach to team-based collaborative learning.
- Provide data showing meaningful patient-centered improvement over time (for instance, through the use of run charts or data tables)
Letter from the resident or resident team indicating a willingness to present their work as a poster at the Conference on Practice & Quality Improvement
Letter of recommendation and support from the resident's or resident team's program director

Application deadline is June 30.

2022 Heran Abiye MD, HCA Medical City Arlington Family Medicin
2021 Resident Team, Riverside University Health System/University of California, Riverside, Moreno Valley, CA
2020 Teena Dcruz, MD, Mount Carmel Health Systems, Westerville, OH
2019 Andrew Telzak, MD, Montefiore Medical Center
2019 Team: Yu (Jen) Lun, MD, Ashley Meyr, MD, Deanna Chavez, MD, Saint Louis University-Family Medicine Residency, St Louis, MO
2018 Team: Oluwaseun Acquah, MD and Amanda Honsvall Hoefler, MD
2017 Team: Julie Antonova, Megan Chock, Nichole Hansen-Cruz, Peifen Sophia Hu, Joshua Wilner, Lisa Zampello
2016 Team: Jessica Bossie, MD, Nora Lamartine, MD, Ivonne McLean, MD, and Pamela Sansoucy, MD
2015 Team: Lindsay Martin-Engel MD MPH, Jacqueline Allen Trenier MD MPH, Amber Grove de Alencar MD MPH. Rebecca Eary MD MPH, Naomi Nemoto MPH
2014: Juan Robles, MD
2013: Russell Ballard, MD, MPhil
2012: Jeffery Cushman, MD
2011: Erik Gulbrandsen, DO
2010: Ravishankar Ramaswamy, MD, MS