Frequently Asked Questions

Being an active participant in the RSC affords you with several exciting opportunities!  In short, it will allow you to collaborate with residents from a variety of disciplines, help shape hospital quality improvement initiatives, expose you to upper-level management within Stanford Health Care, bolster your CV, give you the opportunity to present at the annual Stanford Health Care Quality Symposium, deepen your understanding of quality improvement through educational modules, and expose you to high-level hospital committees representing residents as a whole.

For more details, please browse through the website.  You can read about ongoing projects under the Teams tab (above), examine the current quality improvement curriculum under the Education tab (above), and see what residents are currently doing on hospital-level committees under the Committees tab (above).  If you have any other questions, or would like to learn more than is available on the website, please contact us directly and we would be thrilled to chat.

In general, projects begin at the kickoff meeting in August of each academic year.  At this meeting, you will get a chance to meet your team members and begin planning to start your project.

Within the RSC, projects reach completion in May.  This is to ensure that each team has enough time to dedicate to creating a poster for the annual Stanford Health Care Quality Symposium that month.  However, it is important to note that many projects continue to run far beyond the end of the academic year.  In fact, some continue to grow and evolve the following RSC year, while a select few may be picked up by hospital administration and continued in perpetuity.

The RSC is flexible in allowing members to take on as much responsibility and leadership as desired.  Time commitments vary by role that you choose to apply for.  Bottom line:  you can choose a role that fits your schedule.

Core Member:  1-2 hrs per week

• Serves on an RSC project team
• Participates in monthly team conference calls and works on tasks to forward project
• Attends other RSC activities as able

Senior Member: 2-3 hrs per week

• Serves on an RSC project team
• Participates in monthly team conference calls and works on tasks to forward project
• Leads 3 monthly team conference calls
• Serves as a mentor to newer members
• Eligible to be placed as a resident representative on hospital administrative and quality committees

Team Leader: 3-4 hrs per week

• Leads an RSC project team
• Runs most monthly team conference calls
• Attends a monthly leadership conference call with RSC chairs
• Responsible for motivating, mentoring, and organizing the efforts of core and senior members

Vice Chair: Approx 4-5 hrs per week

• Helps direct the vision and growth of the RSC in an assigned domain (education, committees, or technology)
• Organizes all RSC efforts and initiatives around their assigned domain
• Also an active participant and core member of an RSC project team
• Participates in monthly team conference calls and performs project tasks
• Participates in regular meetings with RSC chairs to ensure the Council is accomplishing its goals

VC of Education: organizes regular lectures and trainings for the RSC and the Stanford community on topics of quality improvement, patient safety, and leadership. Oversees the QI symposium.

VC of Committees: Responsible for securing resident slots on important Stanford hospital quality and administrative committees. Ensures those spots are filed by qualified residents. Ensures the RSC is kept updated regarding the activities of members on those committees.

VC of Technology: Ensures the RSC is using technology platforms that will best help the RSC accomplish its goals.  Leverages the IT resources available at Stanford to help further individual projects and facilitates communication with electronic medical record data collection and analysis.  Creates and directs the RSC twitter account, facebook page, website.

Unfortunately, the RSC is available only to Stanford Health Care residents, fellows, and attendings at this time.