Your Weekly Newsletter: Free Money for Chapter Events and Scholarships to an IHI Expedition
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February 24, 2016

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The IHI Open School is an innovative learning community where you can take free online courses, earn certificates, network with peers and experts, and gain confidence and skills in quality improvement and patient safety to change health care.

Last year, the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) and IHI teamed up to create a suite of online courses to help GME faculty better integrate quality and safety into the clinical learning environment. The courses include five hours of continuing education credits, provide methods and models to engage trainees in quality and safety improvement initiatives, and help prepare faculty and organizations for ACGME’s Clinical Learning Environment Review (CLER) Program. Now, ACGME is continuing to promote the goals set forth by CLER and putting money toward helping organizations reach those goals, an effort called “Pursuing Excellence.” An unprecedented ACGME award process will grant up to $75,000 per year for four years to institutions to help them prepare trainees for the future of health care.

The IHI Open School is offering a full scholarship to students to participate in the upcoming IHI Expedition “Improving Communication to Enhance Cultural Competency,” which begins on March 10. Five web-based sessions will help you and your team learn to better meet patients’ social, cultural, and linguistic needs. All students are eligible to apply, and we’ll give preference to IHI Open School Chapter Leaders. Tell us why you want to participate by filling out this short application by Monday, February 29.

OSnws2_24.pngWhen Barbara Moran came to write those dreaded applications for medical school, one painful memory kept returning: the “brutal death” of her mother from complications of an autoimmune disease. “Nothing in med school could be worse than watching the way my mother died. Her death was so grisly that I vowed to help change the way people die in America,” she writes in The New York Times. “Her death was a system failure, and as a doctor I don’t know how I alone can fix the system. I know only that I will try.” To learn how to tell your story and change systems, take our eight-week online course, Leadership and Organizing to Improve Population Health. Applications for the next offering of the course, which begins March 4, are due on Friday, February 26.
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Welcome, New Chapters

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Are you planning an event for the spring semester? The IHI Open School is here to help. We offer funding between $50 and $250 USD to support your Chapter events, whether you’re hoping to recruit new members, bring in a guest speaker, or host a quality improvement training. It’s your last chance to apply for this semester — the short application is due by Tuesday, March 1.
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