Ten Tips on How to Get the Practicum into Your Curriculum
We designed the IHI Open School Quality Improvement Practicum with the hope that students and residents around the world would use the resource to run improvement projects to make patients’ lives better. And faculty, we hoped, would give students and residents the opportunity by integrating the Practicum into their training.
How exactly do you do that? What are the necessary steps?
A group of faculty at the University of Stirling in Scotland, which guided 230 nursing students through improvement projects in 200 different clinical areas last semester, have put together a list of 10 tips to help anyone integrate the Practicum into a training program. The list includes:
3. Use quality improvement methods to create your Quality Improvement Practicum.
7. Keep students at the heart of everything you do.
8. Think of the Practicum as just another assignment.
For the rest of the list, check out the document on our Practicum page.