Editorial: Faculty Development in Quality Improvement

Republished editorial: Navigating adaptive challenges in quality improvement.

Many quality improvement (QI) projects often fail to achieve their goals. Some fail for technical reasons, such as invalid measures, inattention to key contextual factors that determine the intervention’s effectiveness, or not pilot testing the effort to identify and remove implementation barriers. But, an even larger number of projects fail because of adaptive challenges. ‘Adaptive challenges ...

Quality Improvement in Software Platform Development

A major problem when using software platforms to produce a variety of products relates to keeping a high quality of the platform throughout the development of the products. For a software platform development to be successful, it is essential to master the quality issues when managing and designing the platform. This thesis presents approaches that enable efficient use of the software platform ...

Faculty Development and Quality Assurance in the EU ERAMIS Project

The aim of the ERAMIS project is to create a network of Masters degrees“Informatics as a Second Competence” in nine beneficiary universities of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Russia. This contribution presents how faculty development is organized and quality assurance implemented inside this project.

Multiprofessional Faculty Development - Assuring and Maintaining Quality in Clinical Education

Academic Quality Improvement Process from the Viewpoints of Faculty Members of Universities in Isfahan Province: A Comparison Based on Academic Quality Improvement Program (AQIP)

Introduction: Academic quality improvement in higher education has recently been the subject of attention in many universities of the world. The purpose of this study was to determine the level of academic quality improvement in Isfahan Universities and to compare the Medical and Non-medical Universities. Methods: In this descriptive study, two data gathering tools including questionnaire and ...