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.
The IHI Open School has seven new courses, and there’s something different about them: For the first time, the Open School has online education specifically designed for faculty. Academic medical centers and teaching hospitals can now learn ways to engage trainees in improvement and safety work through the following one-lesson modules:
GME 1: Why Engage Trainees in Quality and Safety?
GME 2: A Guide to the Clinical Learning Environment Review (CLER) Program
GME 3: The Faculty Role: Understanding & Modeling Fundamentals of Quality & Safety
GME 4: The Role of Didactic Learning in Quality Improvement
GME 5: A Roadmap for Facilitating Experiential Learning in Quality Improvement
GME 6: Aligning Graduate Medical Education with Organizational Quality & Safety Goals
GME 7: Faculty Advisor Guide to the IHI Open School Quality Improvement Practicum
The attendees of IHI’s annual Office Practice & Community Summit have always been trailblazers in the pursuit of better health. Last year, Summit attendees shared more than 200 audacious ideas for health, from which some key themes emerged: equity and access, focusing on children, person-centered care, and a holistic view of health. Join us March 15–17 in Dallas for this year’s Office Practice & Community Summit to hear all about the 100 Million Healthier Lives initiative, an unprecedented collaboration of more than 200 organizations and leaders pursuing an audacious goal: 100 million people living healthier lives by 2020. Academic scholarships are available for students, residents, faculty, and deans.
Studies show that what happens in board rooms of hospitals can have a positive effect on quality of care. So why do so few boards work on improving hospitals’ performance? Health economist Austin Frakt explores some of the reasons in a new post on “The Upshot,” a blog of The New York Times. Hospital boards often focus more on fundraising goals than performance improvement, especially out of fear of stepping on clinicians’ toes — but clinicians need organizational support to provide excellent care. Read some of Frakt’s ideas on how to improve quality from the top.
The IHI Open School’s Regional Leaders support Chapters as they recruit members, host events, and advocate for quality and safety to be included in their schools’ curriculum. This month on our blog series “Meet a Regional Leader,” we hear from Jo Inge Myhre, MD, who works with Chapters in Continental Europe. He shares his best moment with the Open School: “I remember when our local Chapter was invited to help with the translation of the WHO Surgical Safety Checklist into Norwegian. It was such a weird moment to actually get recognition as a student for the work we had been doing.” Jo Inge also has some unusual study tips. Read more here.
