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  Continuing Education

This Institute for Healthcare Improvement activity carries the following types of continuing education credits:

 Continuing Education for Physicians
 Continuing Education for Nurses

The Institute for Healthcare Improvement is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.  The Institute for Healthcare Improvement takes responsibility for the content, quality, and scientific integrity of this CME activity.

 

  • Learning Labs
    3
    credit hours
  • Pre-conference Minicourses 
    6 credit hours
  • General Conference                             
    10.25 credit hours

 

IHI designates this continuing medical education activity, the 18th Annual National Forum on Quality Improvement in Health Care, for a maximum of 19.25 Credit Hours in Category 1 of the Physicians Recognition Award of the American Medical Association.  Each physician should claim only those hours of credit he/she actually spent in the educational activity.

The Institute for Healthcare Improvement is approved as a provider of continuing education in nursing by the Massachusetts Association of Registered Nurses which is accredited as an approver of continuing education in nursing by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation. This continuing education activity carries 23.1 Contact Hours.

  • Learning Labs
    3.6 contact hours
  • Pre-conference Minicourses 
    7.2 contact hours
  • General Conference
    12.3 contact hours

 

*All RN licensing boards nationwide acknowledge and accept contact hours from accredited providers. The California Board of Registered Nursing recognizes Category 1 Continuing Medical Education credits, and California nurses can use participation at these events, which are approved for CME Category 1 Credits, towards their license renewal, regardless of whether or not they were held on California soil.  In the section where California nurses are asked to provide a BRN number, please indicate that the IHI event attended was approved for Category 1 CME Credits.  For further inquiries, the California Board of Registered Nursing is in Sacramento, and their number is 916-322-3350.

 Continuing Education for Pharmacists

The universal program number for learning labs is 822-000-06-009-L04 The following learning labs are approved for ACPE credits:

 

L2, L3, L5, L6, L8, L10, L13, L14, L17, L19

 

The universal program number for minicourses is 822-000-06-0098-L04 The following minicourses are approved for ACPE credits:

 

M6, M8, M9, M11, M12, M13, M19

 

The universal program number for the general conference is

 

822-000-06-007-L04

 

The following sessions are approved for ACPE credits:

 

P1, P2, P3, P4

 

A/B 1, A/B 4, A/B 5, A/B 8, A/B12, A/B 19, A/B23 C 13, C14, C15, C15, C21, C22 D/E 2, D/E 3, D/E 4, D/E 7, D/E 10, D/E13, D/E 16, D/E19

 

 

How to Receive Continuing Education Credits

 

To complete the evaluations:

  1. Go to http://www.ihi.org/certificatecenter and login if necessary.

 

  1. Click on the "18th National Forum on Quality Improvement" to create a certificate.

 

  1. Select the credit type you would like to receive, then click the "Submit" button.

 

  1. Review the currently selected session(s). If sessions are incorrect or missing, please click the "Edit Enrollment" button to update your sessions. Follow the editing instructions to return to the Certificate Center, and click the "Continue" button.

 

  1. Complete the online survey(s).

 

  1. When all surveys are completed, click the blue "Generate Certificate" button, and you're done!

 

To download complete instructions before you begin, click here.