Introduce your colleagues and friends to improvement science with this free online course. Developed through a collaboration between HarvardX and the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), PH556x Practical Improvement Science in Health Care: A roadmap for getting results will provide learners with the valuable skills and simple, well-tested tools they need to translate promising innovations into practice. Each week, learners will dive into engaging, interactive materials and relevant resources to start building an improvement toolkit that will serve them long after the six-week course ends.
What You’ll Learn
- Why improvement science is valuable in health and health care.
- Why understanding a system is critical to improving a process.
- The value of conducting iterative tests of change.
- How an improvement project evolves into reliable, standard work.
- How to design and execute a personal improvement project, including an aim, measures, and tests of change.
The MOOC is free. Also available: 6 hours of continuing education credits for physicians, nurses, pharmacists, and Certified Professionals in Healthcare Quality (CPHQ) for $99 from IHI. (For this option, sign up using both buttons.) EdX is also offering a Verified Certificate.
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