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Start Your Journey in Health Care Improvement
Whether you’re new to quality improvement, eager to strengthen your understanding of patient safety, or ready to make a bigger impact in your current role, the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) offers the knowledge, tools, and guidance to help you take the first step.
Discover the Foundations of Quality, Safety, and Improvement in Health Care
Start Your Journey courses introduce learners to the core concepts of quality, patient safety, and improvement science. Guided by experts and grounded in real-world practice, these programs help you build confidence and gain practical tools to make a difference in your organization, your team, and your patients’ lives.
Ideal for students, residents, and frontline care providers such as physicians, nurses, pharmacists, and social workers, our beginner-friendly programs are the perfect first step toward a lifelong journey of learning and improvement.
IHI Open School: On-Demand Learning
The IHI Open School is a subscription-based education platform that provides on-demand courses that can be completed anytime, anywhere. Our catalog of foundational courses cover topics such as Quality Improvement, Patient Safety, Leadership, and more.
Full Access Individual Subscription
This subscription provides access to over 30 self-paced online courses in quality improvement, patient safety, leadership, equity, and more, as well as earnable Continuing Education credits.
This individual subscription provides access to 9 self-paced online courses in patient safety content, each with earnable Continuing Education credits.
Quality Improvement Subscription
This individual subscription provides access to 7 self-paced online courses in quality improvement content, each with earnable Continuing Education credits.
Purchase select Open School courses individually with optional Continuing Education credits.
Online Courses
Patient Safety and Quality Improvement: Foundations for Early Career Professionals
This hands-on program is designed to sharpen your skills and boost your effectiveness in driving meaningful change. From event reporting to regulatory compliance and risk management, this course empowers individuals to deepen their understanding of safety and quality concepts and their practical applications in a busy health system.
Moving Quality Improvement from Theory to Action
Designed for those ready to jump-start a stalled improvement effort, this program helps participants turn ideas into measurable action. Through expert guidance and hands-on learning, you’ll gain practical tools, strategies, and peer insights to accelerate progress and achieve results.
This in-depth program will turn health care professionals into champions of age-friendly care within their health systems. It teaches the elements of the 4Ms Framework (What Matters, Medication, Mentation, and Mobility), and how to implement age-friendly care learnings in different types of care settings.
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