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April 16, 2014
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.
In the past two years, hundreds of universities and organizations around the world have integrated IHI Open School online courses into their curricula and training programs. Some educators use the full catalog of 23 courses, while others handpick two or three modules that fit their needs. With this boost of activity, we recently hit one of our biggest milestones to date: 1,000,000 courses completed.
But the Open School has much more than just courses — we also have a growing collection of resources (including videos, case studies, and improvement stories) on our website that complement the learning from the modules. We’ve improved the resources so they all now include learning objectives, discussion questions, and key topics.
And to make life easier for busy educators, we’ve reorganized our website and selected several resources to accompany each Open School course. Beneath the description on each course landing page, we’ve inserted a link that will take you to resources related to that particular course. (We’ve also created a new Activities page if you’d prefer to browse the resources by topic.) We hope this new structure will provide educators with more tools they can use to teach rich lessons on human factors, PDSA cycles, population health, or anything else within the Open School catalog.
As always, we’d love to hear any suggestions you have for improvement. Email us your feedback at openschool@ihi.org.
On April 10, more than 1200 listeners joined the WIHI broadcast on “Reclaiming Empathy,” which explored effective ways to help today’s busy and often overwhelmed caregivers reconnect with their own feelings and the feelings of others. Listen to the audio broadcast to hear what experts from Massachusetts General Hospital, Cleveland Clinic, and IHI had to say on the topic.
“One of the hardest things about being a surgeon is the inevitability of complications,” writes Dr. Sid Schwab, retired surgeon, author, and blogger. “There is a very real temptation — to which, even in this age of attorneys under every rock, some people still succumb — to fudge it, not to tell it like it was, to protect oneself.” Read his full blog post on KevinMD.com. Learn more about this topic from the Open School course PS 105: Communicating with Patients after Adverse Events.
Community Updates
Welcome, New Chapters
Northeast Ohio Medical Center, Rootstown, Ohio, US
Chapter Leaders, take the opportunity to let us know how your Chapter is doing and what you need! The Chapter Progress Report survey will take less than 15 minutes to complete, and we only need one Report per Chapter.
Then join the next Global Chapter Call on April 23 at 12 PM or 6 PM EST*, during which we’ll highlight:
Chapters that have launched quality improvement initiatives at their schools and organizations
Insights from your Progress Report responses
We look forward to talking with you next week!
*Please note that this month we are testing holding two sessions of the global call to allow for more people to participate. You may join whichever session is most convenient to you.
