Duration
April 17, 2024 - April 16, 2025
Price
Free*
Modality
Online
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Duration
7 weeks long
Time Commitment
2 - 5 hours per week
Pace
Self-paced
Subject
Business
Difficulty
Introductory
Credit
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Platform
edX
Topics
Strategic Management
Self-Improvement
Healthcare
Associated Schools
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
What you'll learn
Why improvement science is valuable in health, health care, and daily life.
Why understanding a system is critical to improving a process.
The value of conducting iterative tests of change.
How an improvement project evolves into reliable, standard work.
How to design and execute a personal improvement project, including an aim, measures, and tests of change.
How interprofessional teams come together to do successful improvement work.
Course description
Developed through a collaboration between HarvardX and the Institute for Healthcare Improvement,PH 556x: Practical Improvement Science in Health Care: A roadmap for getting resultswill provide learners with the valuable skills and simple, well-tested tools they need to translate promising innovations or evidence into practice. A group of expert faculty will explore a scientific approach to improvement — a practical, rigorous methodology that includes a theory of change, measurable aims, and iterative, incremental small tests of change to determine if improvement concepts can be implemented effectively in practice. Faculty will present this science through the lens of improving health and health care, but will also share examples of how improvement can (and does) influence our daily lives.
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Each week, learners will dive into engaging, interactive materialsand relevant resources to start building an improvement toolkit that will serve them long after the seven-week course ends. Learners will immediately put their new skills to the test as they work each week on a personal improvement project that will show them the power of the science that has improved healthcare — and other industries — around the world for decades.
The only prerequisite for the course is curiosity, but the reward is a lifetime of improvement.
In support of improving patient care, the Institute for Healthcare Improvement is accredited by the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing education for the healthcare team. This activity has also been approved by the National Association for Healthcare Quality for CPHQ CE credit. If you are interested in earning CEUs for this course, please visitwww.IHI.org/PH556Xto see the options and steps required prior to enrolling or taking any action on edX.
Course Outline
Lesson 1: What is the Science of Improvement?
Lesson 2: Applying the Model for Improvement
Lesson 3: Introduction to Measurement for Improvement
Lesson 4: Practical Tools that Support Improvement (including a seven-piece toolkit)
Lesson 5: Using Systems Principles to Spread Improvement
Lesson 6: Working within Interprofessional Teams
Lesson 7: Implementing Sustainable Improvement Work
Instructors
Don Goldmann
Chief Scientific Officer, Emeritus, and Senior Fellow Institute for Healthcare Improvement Professor of Pediatrics Harvard Medical School Professor of Epidemiology Harvard School of Public Health
Dave Williams
Faculty, Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI)
Don Berwick
President Emeritus and Senior Fellow, Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI)
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