WHAT WE DO

Medicine

We start with the premise that a successful surgery is not just how the patient does on the operating room table, but whether the eventual outcome is a success: if the patient can get safely out of the hospital in a timely manner and safely; and if the patient can then experience meaningful positive changes in their day-to-day activities and functional status. To accomplish this requires a dynamic approach to care centered around the expertise of a multidisciplinary team comprised of surgeons, ICU physicians, anesthesiologists, nurses, respiratory therapists, and families all working together and communicating seamlessly to formulate and execute a clinical action plan.

Our program also seeks to have a long-lasting cultural impact that stems from this teaching and partnering in clinical excellence. The goal is to demonstrate the power of flattening the hierarchy where surgeons, doctors, nurses, and respiratory therapists all have a voice that is heard with regard to a particular patient’s plan.

The curriculum is designed around a multi-modal and hands-on process of training, practice, guided discovery, demonstration, simulation, traditional learning (print, videos, etc.) and assessment where the local teams are trained in a developmental and scaffolded fashion toward autonomy and independence. Guided by the principles of democratic education and inquiry-based learning, the curriculum is not a strict, pre-scripted educational process but a customized program that adapts to the local resources, teams, and their evolving needs. We call this approach Progressive Autonomy.

We are committed to developing research and assessment programs designed to gauge the effectiveness and impact of our activities in order to:

As part of our commitment to continuously support patients and provide them with the best care possible, CareWays plans to build off our on-going partnership with Massachusetts General Hospital and Mass. Eye and Ear to develop additional strategic partnerships with a variety of organizations that can promote our shared goals, including:

This network will stand at the core of our work to synchronize the development and deployment of our cutting-edge research, curriculum, and medical best practices to all CareWays team members. The Collaborative will be constantly growing and evolving; local healthcare teams will develop from student to teachers themselves to foster the development of the model’s practices elsewhere in their own country and in other countries around the world. The Collaborative will be managed centrally by the founding team in Boston, who will serve as a resource for members on surgical expertise and training, collaborative models of care, as well as research and assessment programs.

This work will ensure the CareWays model remains at the forefront of innovation and best practices in global pediatric surgical and patient care.