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April 30, 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.
One of the biggest challenges of improving quality within health care is engaging clinicians in the work. Clinicians have demanding schedules, high stress levels, and pressure from payers and accreditors. How can you engage these busy colleagues to join your improvement work?
Don Goldmann, MD, Chief Medical and Scientific Officer at IHI, answers the question with knowledge from his decades of experience as a clinician and leader of improvement. In fact, Dr. Goldmann shares seven answers, the rules he says are critical if you want to engage the people doing the work in improving it. Watch the video and check out the new video activity, which you can share with your Chapter, here.
What skills should new internal medicine interns have in July, according to the faculty who will train them? A recent survey provides key insight, which, according to a New York Times article, isn’t incredibly surprising ― except that 300 program directors from across the nation largely agreed on the answer. (Hint: Only 5 percent believed that new interns needed to have more medical knowledge or procedural experience.)
Chapters Leaders, complete your Progress Report by May 16 (if you haven’t already done so) to let the Open School know how your Chapter is doing and what support you need. By completing your Progress Report, you’ll gain eligibility to apply for Chapter event sponsorship and maintain your active status in the community. Only one report is required per Chapter.
Calling all students and junior doctors in the United Kingdom and Ireland! Meet with other Chapter Leaders and students in your region at the annual IHI Open School United Kingdom and Ireland Regional Congress, on June 7 in Cardiff, Whales. At the Congress you’ll learn new skills to lead improvements in the quality of care you deliver to patients, have the opportunity to present your work via poster and oral presentations, and learn from expert guest speakers from around the world. Spaces are limited. Click here to learn more and register.
