PLQS: Innovative Merit Pathway for Hospitalist Recognition and Career Development
The PLQS Award is an innovative program developed to systematically recognize and support quality improvement and patient safety activities among hospitalists and clinicians.
It addresses the challenge of promoting QI/PS scholarship in academic hospital medicine by cataloging projects and providing awards, coaching, and scholarly support.
Over the past two decades, quality improvement and patient safety (QI/PS) have become integral to the mission of hospital medicine, driving system-wide problem solving and practice changes to improve patient care.
With the introduction of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education requirements to integrate QI/PS activities into graduate medical education, the significance of structured QI/PS work and its incorporation into promotion criteria, especially for academic hospitalists, has become increasingly evident.
Author summary: PLQS Award supports quality improvement.