Third-year medical students at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai recently participated in an educational competition—modeled after the popular television show Shark Tank—to develop and pitch novel interventions to a panel of judges for issues involving patient safety and quality improvement. The activity, created in 2016 by the Department of Medical Education, aims to teach leadership, team building, and collaboration skills to medical students.
Two winning teams were selected. Judges Marc Napp, MD, and Barbara Barnett, MD, joined 10 students from one winning team who had developed a novel strategy for transitioning patients from discharge to follow-up care. Dr. Napp is Senior Vice President, Medical Affairs, and Deputy Chief Medical Officer, Mount Sinai Health System. Dr. Barnett is Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine, and Medicine (General Internal Medicine), Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.