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January 20, 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.

MOOC.pngIHI and HarvardX — Harvard University’s branch of the online learning venture edX — have collaborated to produce a free massive open online course (MOOC) called PH 556x: Practical Improvement Science in Health Care: A Roadmap for Getting Results. Starting today and lasting for six weeks, the course will submerge learners in engaging, interactive materials and relevant resources to start building improvement skills that will serve them long after the MOOC ends. The course is free to any user, and physicians, nurses, residents, and quality professionals have the option to earn six continuing education credits (CEUs) for a $99 fee.

Almost two years ago, the IHI Open School community launched the IHI Open School Change Agent Network (I-CAN), an unprecedented effort to mobilize students to improve population health. Last month, we reached our goal of mobilizing 30,000 people toward this aim. Whether you participated before or you’re brand new to I-CAN, join us on January 28 at 2 PM ET for a momentum call to share updates on our work and talk about the next phase of this effort. Applications are now open for the next offering of the I-CAN course, Leadership and Organizing to Improve Population Health, which starts March 4.

After US Vice President Joe Biden unveiled his “moonshot” initiative against cancer last week, STAT News asked experts what advice they would offer to help move the project forward. Many of the ideas for curing cancer weren’t about improving medical technology, but about improving quality. The experts talked about timeliness (“delays, which can affect survival, are often due to problems like inability to get to a treatment center”), equity (“potentially curative therapies [should be] available to everyone with cancer”), and effectiveness (“we have these therapies; let’s get them out there.”) Learn more about the IOM’s aims for improvement for all of health care in QI 101: Fundamentals of Improvement.
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You’ve done the improvement work. Now, how do you share it? Join this Friday’s Global Chapter Call at 12 PM ET to learn from an expert on how you can get your quality improvement work published. Dr. Greg Ogrinc, Director of the Quality Literature Program and Senior Associate Dean for Medical Education at Dartmouth Medical School, will share best practices and how to follow the SQUIRE guidelines for writing about QI. All members of the Open School community are welcome to join this call.
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