Alan Gob

Hematologist, internist, photographer, and avid QI Geek

[Helen Bevan @HelenBevan]

Psychological safety hierarchy of needs. There's a powerful premise. As leaders, we want our teams to do their best, most productive work. Yet our leadership behaviours - micro-managing, work dumping etc, can block this at a fundamental level. V @heidipsychology @Juliet_Young1

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@LHSCCanada Huge congrats to @JBinnendyk and Joe Carson. Couldn't have developed the program without you!

[London Health Sciences Centre @LHSCCanada]

Please join us in celebrating Dr. Alan Gob, a Hematologist here at LHSC, for his innovative and award-winning quality improvement curriculum delivery.

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@JBinnendyk @SchulichMedDent A total team effort! Couldn’t have done it without you @JBinnendyk

[Joan Binnendyk @JBinnendyk]

Congratulations to @agob winner of the Top What Works paper presentation at #ICRE2022 on ‘Scaling and spreading Quality Improvement education in the face of scarcity: Doing more with less’ @SchulichMedDent

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My question for the QI community is: what do you feel is the essence of QI's identity? Curiosity? Context focus? Systems thinking?

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In his book Atomic Habits, @JamesClear describes three types of mindshifts. In terms of power, outcome focus < process focus < identity focus. Reflecting on this in terms of quality improvement and other paradigm shifts in medicine:

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Quality Improvement has been less successful (at least in Canada) because we are still teaching skills and behaviours as opposed to focusing on identity-level change.

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@AJEAppleton And who is the entity that evaluates those thoughts? The natural extension: you are not your thoughts.

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Opinion: To keep COVID-19 variants out of Canada, stop ignoring essential workers /via @globeandmail https://t.co/zqbN6OFBP6

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@Brian_M_Wong @LingardLorelei @LouiseMoist1 @mayurbrahmania We are spreading the word - looking forward to attending this year!

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https://t.co/a39fZsGPyN So proud of all the work that everyone put in to get to this point. The best is yet to come!

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@TChanMD @drjfrank @PSIFoundation @westernuCERI Hi Teresa!

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Finished an amazing 4 day Writing MasterClass capped by an inspiring career path talk by @drjfrank. Thanks to @PSIFoundation for sponsoring and @westernuCERI for organizing!

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3. Designing a problem escalation process is critical. If the front line can’t solve a problem on its own, an efficient problem escalation channel should bring the problem to someone who can

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Top 3 takeaways at the IHI National Forum:

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2. Leadership should define a set of best behavioural practices (i.e. leadership standard work) to serve as a yardstick by which governance performance is evaluated

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For those interested, this is a compressed and comprehensive course in QI methodology!

[Brian Wong @Brian_M_Wong]

We are now accepting applications for EQUIP for 2020-21, our #QI certificate course at @CQuIPS that prepares faculty & senior trainees to lead QI in academic environments. Pls retweet & encourage others to apply. Deadline for applications is March 27, 2020 https://t.co/6jeL6XY6c8