Harnessing SQUIRE-EDU to Create & Disseminate Innovation in Medical Education

CLIME | Recorded May 2, 2025

Dr. Greg Ogrinc is the Senior Vice President for Certification Standards and Programs at the American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS), where he leads strategy and collaborates with Member Boards on all aspects of certification standards and programming.

Previously, he served as Senior Associate Dean for Medical Education at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth and as Associate Chief of Staff for Education at the White River Junction VA.

Dr. Ogrinc is a hospitalist at the Jesse Brown VA Medical Center and Clinical Professor at the University of Illinois College of Medicine at Chicago.

A national leader in medical education and healthcare improvement, he helped launch the IHI Open School and was a founding member of the Kern National Network. He is lead author of Fundamentals of Healthcare Improvement and co-investigator for the SQUIRE guidelines.

He earned his MD from Case Western Reserve and a master’s from Dartmouth’s Center for Evaluative Clinical Sciences.

Key Takeaways

In this session, Dr. Greg Ogrinc introduced the SQUIRE-EDU framework and shared how it supports the design, evaluation, and dissemination of educational improvement. He emphasized three essential elements for reporting meaningful change: identifying the educational gap, measuring impact beyond learners, and maintaining fidelity through iterative improvement.

Core Objectives: 

  • Apply a quality improvement (QI) lens to curriculum development and improvement.

  • Describe the key components of SQUIRE-EDU
    • Educational Gap
    • Impact on stakeholders (learners, faculty, the educational program, patients, families, healthcare systems, or communities)
    • Fidelity of the Intervention
  • Use the SQUIRE-EDU guidelines to assess an article from the peer-reviewed literature. 

 

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Recorded on May 2,2025, Captions Available

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