California Medical Education Collaborative
A project to develop a framework for training pediatricians to deliver care to children with chronic illnesses in a medical home by redesigning pediatric training programs in California using a learning collaborative model.
Who
Dozens of healthcare experts across California.
Our Role
Served as lead consultant for creating an action plan for the design and implementation of the learning collaborative and led the writing of a report on the use of learning collaboratives in both residency education and the medical home.
Funder
The project was funded by Mattel Children’s Hospital UCLA and was in partnership with Children’s Hospital Los Angeles and the Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital.
Project Impact
External Resources
State Perinatal Quality Collaboratives
List of PQCs funded by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
The Power of PQCs
Video showing the impact that PQCs have on the communities they serve. Produced by the NNPQC.
PQCs in the News
Articles in news outlets covering state PQCs, their activities, and the people that work in the collaboratives.
Patient Safety Bundles
From the Alliance for Innovation on Maternal Health. PSBs are collections of evidence-informed best practices that address clinically specific conditions in pregnant and postpartum people. The NNPQC helps provide TA and support to PQCs in adopting the core AIM Perinatal Mental Health Bundle.
Perinatal Quality Collaboratives
The CDC’s landing page for PQCs, including helpful infographics, videos, and links to help explain what PQCs are, how they work, and stories, learnings, and publications that have come out of the state PQCs.
Related Content
Resources produced by the California Medical Education Collaborative project or on related topics
Meet Our Team
“In our deep organizational work to move along the Equity Systems Continuum from a Savior-Designed System to an Equity-Empowered System, we acknowledge the power of action. The potential is limitless for today’s commitments to improve the systems in which health care and public health professionals work and families receive care.”
