1) GROUP ASSIGNMENT: Writing A Problem Statement/2)GROUP ASSIGNMENT: Grading the Final Project Preliminary Evidence/3)GROUP ASSIGNMENT: Fishbone Diagram of Your Problem/4)GROUP ASSIGNMENT: Writing A Problem Statement – REVISED 2nd DRAFTt

What to do: Review the instructions for this week’s assignment.

Overview

Determine the drivers of the health care issue that your group has selected as the topic for your final project. 

Review the Diagram process as outlined in the video below. This will help give you a roadmap to follow when determining what should be the targets of the therapeutic target, intervention, or solution to the problem your group has chosen to investigate. How can you solve a problem if you don’t know EXACTLY what is driving the problem? Additionally, this will help you develop a refined problem statement describing your topic – AND, it will provide the introduction for your final project paper.

Keep in mind that this is a generative process and your group may require multiple diagrams to hone in on a specific problem. Since it may take several iterations to whittle the topic down further as demonstrated in the video, please be sure to submit all pages here so we can understand your progression and thought process.

For example, using the example diagram below about bad burgers, your group may decide to specifically focus on “unhygienic storage”. You would then reframe the head of your fish to “Unhygienic storage results in bad tasting burgers”. The new diagram would investigate the components of that problem. This process would continue until you have a well-defined problem.

Directions

• Create a fishbone diagram for the topic your group has selected to investigate for the final project.
• Review the example diagram that is in the “Quality Improvement Approach..” article listed below in Resources.
• The fishbone diagram should include:
  • The top 3 drivers for each health care issue – write these answers in a text box next to each of the diagrams.
  • The factors listed in each category should be written as complete thought/ideas not one or two words that do not convey an idea
  • Include citations
  • Use the fishbone diagram template below 
    • However, if you have issues completing the template, you are free to draw the diagram by hand and submit a photo of the diagram.

What to Include

• Fishbone diagram (completed according to the directions above) depicting the health care issue that your group has selected as the topic for your final project.

Resources

• TEMPLATE: Fishbone Diagram (.docx)Download TEMPLATE: Fishbone Diagram (.docx)

Articles

• Quality Improvement Approach to Eliminate Disparities in Perinatal Morbidity and MortalityDownload Quality Improvement Approach to Eliminate Disparities in Perinatal Morbidity and Mortality
• Controlled Interventions to Reduce Burnout in Physicians: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysisDownload Controlled Interventions to Reduce Burnout in Physicians: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis
• Beyond Burnout: A Physician Wellness Hierarchy Designed to Prioritize Interventions at the Systems LevelDownload Beyond Burnout: A Physician Wellness Hierarchy Designed to Prioritize Interventions at the Systems Level
• Targeting Causes of Burnout in Residency: An Innovative Approach Used at Hennepin HealthcareDownload Targeting Causes of Burnout in Residency: An Innovative Approach Used at Hennepin Healthcare

Academic Integrity

• AI Tools (ex: ChatGPT, Gemini, Co-Pilot, Bing, etc.) are not permitted.
• Getting help on the assignment is permitted.
• Collaborating, or completing the assignment with others, is permitted.
• Copying or reusing previous work is not permitted.
• Open-book research for the assignment is permitted and encouraged.
• APA Citations and/or formatting for this assignment are required.