Author ORCID Identifier
0000-0003-3982-5790
Abstract
Clinical excellence is the ability to provide rigorous, evidence-based, and rewarding care to the right patients. The BALM (brilliance, attitude, leadership, and materials) framework is a novel model for adjudicating clinical excellence. There are a few models and frameworks for evaluating clinical excellence, but each has its flaws and does not consider the peculiarities of economically-challenged regions such as sub-Saharan Africa. Coincidentally, such low-resource areas have an urgent need for a framework to assess clinical excellence because of their low health-related indices. The five-step mode of professional excellence is a well-recognised tool and was the model upon which the BALM framework was built.
So, the BALM framework determines to what extent, using the five-step stages of novice, advanced beginner, competent, proficient, and expert, a clinician has achieved in each of the four critical domains, namely brilliance, attitude, leadership and materials. Therefore, a clinician, who strives for excellence, aims to be an “expert” in each of the domains of the BALM framework. The framework is concise, practical, easy to use, and multidimensional, although it still needs to be applied widely to assess its reproducibility.
Publication Date
2024
Publisher
JSS Academy of Higher Education & Research
Conflict of Interest
No conflict of interest
Keywords
BALM framework, clinical governance, health care quality, health personnel attitude, sub-Saharan Africa
Word Count
3000
Recommended Citation
Azeez TA.
The BALM framework of clinical excellence: an adoptable model for sub-Saharan Africa..
Digital Journal of Clinical Medicine.
2024;
6(3):
-.
doi:
https://doi.org/10.55691/2582-3868.1183
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