Quality Improvement Cohort

The AACVPR Research and Quality of Care Committees are pleased to announce the return of the Quality Improvement Cohort, a learning opportunity designed to provide professionals the tools needed to identify, plan for and implement a quality improvement (QI) project in their program. This program will also help participants understand how to write up the results of that project and present them to administration and/or submit them as an abstract for the AACVPR Annual Meeting.

For the first cohort, we plan to set the capacity of the program at 40-50 participants. As a result, this may be a competitive selection process, and not all who apply are guaranteed to be selected to participate.
 

All applications are due October 1, 2025, and should be submitted to research@aacvpr.org.

Candidates can expect to hear about the status of their applications by October 8, 2025. 

Faculty

• Quinn Pack, MD, MSc, FAACVPR – QI Cohort Co-Chair
• Mark Stout, MS, CCRP, MAACVPR – QI Cohort Co-Chair
• Theresa Beckie, PhD
• Anne Gavic, MPA, RCEP, MAACVPR
• Patrick Schilling ACSM-CEP, CCRP, FAACVPR
• Bryan Taylor, PhD, FACSM, FAACVPR
• Ashley Wishman, MS, CEP, CSCS, EIM3, FAACVPR

Eligibility Requirements

• Completion of full application, including supervisor participation acknowledgement form 
• $50 non-refundable participation fee if selected for the cohort

Application Requirements

• Completion of contact and demographic information
• Completion of applicant attestation
• Completion of application attestation by direct supervisor
• Submission of Quality Improvement Proposal (See proposal template and sample proposal included in this application packet for details – we suggest focusing on Enrollment and Adherence) to include: 
  • Clinical question or problem to target and the proposed intervention to address the question or problem
  • Unsure what question or problem you would like to target for this program? We recommend focusing on improving your program’s enrollment and adherence results. See below for suggestions:
    • The Program Certification Performance Measures are a good starting point as your program should already have a process for collecting the data points and access to historical data from previous applications and annual reports 
    • Applicants are encouraged to review the Million Hearts Cardiac Rehabilitation Change Package for possible questions and problems to target

Meeting Schedule

The cohort will meet on Tuesdays at 2:00 pm ET/1:00 pm CT/12:00 pm MT/11:00 am PT on the currently planned dates to cover the following topics. Please note: dates may shift slightly based on faculty availability.    

* In addition to the calls, participants need to implement their selected quality improvement project within their program.

Any questions regarding this new offering should be directed to research@aacvpr.org.