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Dr. Dan Duffy
Dr. Daniel Duffy is the Senior Associate Dean for Academics, Adjunct Professor of Medicine and Director of the Community Medicine Track at the OU School of Community Medicine, Tulsa. He is the former Senior Advisor to the President of the American Board of Internal Medicine in Philadelphia. Dr. Duffy returned to Tulsa and OU in 2006 after 10-years on the staff of ABIM where he led the introduction of a new process for physician Maintenance of Certification based on evaluation of performance in practice. He held an adjunct professorship at the University of Pennsylvania in Internal Medicine and was a volunteer teacher at Philadelphia medical schools. Dr. Duffy served as a regent for the American College of Physicians from 1992-98, chair of the Board of Governors from 1991-92, and as Oklahoma governor for the College from 1988-91. He was Chair of the Department of Medicine at the University of Oklahoma in Tulsa where he was honored with the Stanton L. Young Master Teacher Award in 1989 and several awards from students and residents for excellence in teaching.
Duffy was a founding member of the American Academy on Communications in Healthcare, is a fellow of the Academy, and is a past chair of the Board of Directors. He was chair of the Residency Review Committee for Internal Medicine from 1991-97. For his contributions to internal medicine, the American College of Physicians awarded Mastership in 1999 and the Association of Professors of Medicine awarded a Lifetime Service Award in Internal Medicine in 2006. He served on the Ambulatory Measures Steering Committee of the National Quality Forum and on the Performance Measurement Committee of the National Committee for Quality Assurance. He is currently a member of the Board of Directors of the American Board of Medical Specialties. He is a consultant in healthcare organizational design and expert in physician education, healthcare communications, and quality assessment and improvement.
Dr. Duffy is a graduate of the University of Pittsburgh, received his medical degree from Temple University Medical School, and completed residency training in internal medicine at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center.
The competency of Practice-Based Learning and Improvement (PBLI) is the habit of continuously advancing knowledge, attitudes, and skills through reflection and feedback on measures of medical practice and taking deliberate action to improve practice systems, including one’s part in it. PBLI is a complex competency that integrates several learning concepts and methods in professional advancement across the novice to expert developmental stages in providing healthcare.
The habit of PBLI assures lifelong professional development. It advances knowledge and technique through continuously improving practice systems. Individual learning occurs within the context of learning organizations that deliver medical care. Professional practice can only be learned through reflective and engaged practice in doing it.
PBLI is the basis for all professional development and education. It is a habit that is used at all stages of professional development. It involves interaction with professionals at more advanced developmental stages. PBLI emphasizes that medical knowledge is of two types: explicit scientific knowledge assessed and developed through evidence-based methods and the tacit knowledge that is generated through the quality improvement approach of measuring our work and using the measurement to design and test improvement ideas. Both forms of knowledge are essential and need active knowledge management which is developing into an important personal and organizational discipline.
While this presentation draws on Dr. Duffy’s role as Dean of the OU School of Community Medicine, his views on transferring knowledge to new medical professionals can be applied to any high-level professional discipline.
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