The goals of the Leading Change initiative for our residents are to define and instill generally recognized qualities of leadership in our residents while simultaneously encouraging ownership of the residency program and the patient care it delivers. The residents sit in the center of our healthcare system with opportunity to learn and teach patients, learners, peers, and faculty. In addition, the focus is to promote academic excellence, integrity, respect and altruism among our residents and to cultivate necessary skills for fostering healthcare systems change for quality and patient safety improvement.

An area of importance for these efforts is for residents to recognize and optimally utilize the varied multidisciplinary healthcare teams to deliver best care, preparing residents to shape healthcare beyond their training time.

We hope to measure and accomplish these goals by providing residents opportunities for participation in leadership skills development educational sessions, by fostering resident input and involvement in ongoing quality and patient safety projects, by giving residents chances to inform and mentor faculty in designing their own quality and patient safety endeavors, and by giving residents leadership roles in refining and improving our learning environment, our residency program and our community. Our resources include a dedicated faculty, three hospital systems that value quality and patient safety above all else, the Regenstrief Institute, an internationally renowned informatics and health care research organization, and, of course, our valued housestaff.