Audit Meeting at Emirati Hospital on Wednesday 23rd November 2016
The Academic Year 2016/17 is in full swing and the Year 5 students have again been busy!! Busy with Clinical Audit!!!
On Wednesday 23rd, we had our fifth clinical audit meeting at Emirati Hospital. In the presence of the hospital doctors and a good part of the nursing and midwifery staff as well as the hospital pharmacists, four audits were presented. Some sparked lively and fruitful debate, others gave rise to useful recommendations and action plans. A variety of topics were presented, among them 2 re-audits, to assess for change. Individual topics were:
1. Current Practice in Handwashing – a Re-audit
2. Indications for Caesarean Sections
3. Use of Antibiotics after Vaginal Delivery
4. Management of Early Pregnancy Loss – a Re-audit
Each of the audits had been supervised and inspired by one of the resident doctors at the Emirati Hospital, namely DrImanSarsour, DrShireenIsmaeil, Dr Rania Sarsour and DrAbdulkareemAlraqab. The audits were well done and the groups of Year 5 students showed impressive team efforts to complete their work in their short time at Emirati Hospital. Their presentations were informative, well designed and interesting. Therefore, it was not surprising that they collected good feedback by the audience.
However, the heart of the audit meeting was the debate and the decisions made around each of the presentations. This part took up the greatest amount of time at the meeting and sparked some constructive decisions and action plans, made towards improvement of the quality of care for patients at the Emirati Hospital.
It is with great pleasure for me to express the deepest gratitude to the staff at Emirati Hospital under the leadership of Dr Waleed Afana. They do not only enable our students to learn the process of clinical audit, but they actively engage with and embrace this process for the benefit of their patients and towards the continuous improvement of healthcare services at the Emirati Hospital.
I look forward to further work and cooperation in this way also in the future and would like to say ‘WELL DONE!’ to all the students.
Dr Bettina Bӧttcher
Head of Clinical Audit and Research at the Faculty of Medicine
Unit of Evidence Based Medicine