As a member of the National Collaborative for Improving the Clinical Learning Environment (NCICLE), ACCP has been invited to participate in gathering resources that our members use in their practice sites to ensure patient safety and improve health care quality within clinical learning environments (CLE), including patient care areas within hospitals, clinics, and community-based practice sites. NCICLE is asking each of its 43 health care professional organizations and their members to review the pathways and properties in the Patient Safety and Health Care Quality sections of the NCICLE Pathways to Excellence document and submit tools and resources from their practice sites to be shared among the organizations.

The annual NCICLE Resources Challenge is an effort to gather review articles, studies, podcasts, tool kits, and other resources to facilitate sharing best practices more widely. Submissions need to be linked to one or more of the Patient Safety or Health Care Quality pathways found on pages 9 and 12 of the NCICLE Pathways to Excellence document. Resources may focus on a single patient care unit, department, or institution and may involve a single profession or all the health care professions that make up a patient care team. Examples of resources in this area include interprofessional orientation or training for students and residents on patient safety and quality improvement, developing policies and simulations for disclosure after an error so that learners, faculty, and staff communicate in an appropriate manner to the patient and others on the team, and developing more standardized metrics to measure quality in the CLE. Projects focused on maintaining a culture of safety are particularly important to submit. Resources do not need to have been published in the medical literature but must be publicly available. The tools and resources submitted during the Challenge will be shared at the Fall 2026 NCICLE meeting and placed in a resource compendium on the NCICLE website. A link for the NCICLE Pathways to Excellence document and all the previous compendia can also be found on the Professional Resources section of the ACCP webpage.

The submission portal is now open at Submit Your Resource. NCICLE welcomes all submissions; no resource is too big or too small. The only requirement is that the resource is publicly available. Contributions of all kinds help build a richer resource for the broader clinical learning environment community. The deadline to submit is September 30, 2026. Please send any questions about NCICLE or the Patient Safety and Health Care Quality Resource Challenge to [email protected].