Download the Chapter Goals

In the April 2009 Chapter Progress Report, we asked the Chapters to identify their goals for the next academic year – check out their ambition!  Use these goals to organize your Chapter – what do YOU want to accomplish this year – how much, by when?  Collaborate with other Chapter Leaders whose goals align with yours!

Membership, Organization, & Support

• Increase membership
• Identify student leaders from each school
• Build relationships with other student organizations on campus
• Create  a Chapter website
• Collaborate with nearby schools
• Introduce students to online courses
• Obtain funding for our Chapter
• Develop a leadership succession plan
• Recruit faculty to join the Chapter
• Get 10% of the first year medical student to join the Chapter
• Start a Chapter blog
• Establish a newsletter or other means of regular communication
• Create map of quality improvement projects going on campus
• Explain Chapter to all faculty at the hospital
• Obtain recognition from campus as an official student organization
• Establish a training plan for Chapter members
• Obtain recognition for local hospital leaders for the university chapter (CNO, COO, etc)

Education

• Attend an IHI conference
• Engage local hospital in Chapter activities and get students involved in quality improvement projects
• Review a case study with our Chapter
• Visit the IHI Office
• Obtain IHI Open School certification of completion when available
• Recruit at least three Chapter members to complete courses
• Encourage students to present their quality improvement research projects
• Establish a firm presence in the undergraduate induction programme for the ethos of the IHI Open School and its development
• Identify opportunities to include quality improvement in courses in the  university and/or hospital
• Revise leadership course on campus to incorporate quality improvement

Events & Activities

• Host regular meetings or events
• Host at least one guest speaker
• Host a regional event for students
• Identify a change we can make and participate in a community service project
• Host a monthly Chapter Call
• Host an event with another student organization on campus
• Host a quality of care forum to provide exposure for work being done at the our hospitals
• Organize a patient safety day to pilot the WHO Surgical Safety Checklist
• Complete our first quality improvement project at the student run family clinic
• Set up a Deans’ Symposium on patient safety and quality improvement to involve the entire community
• Start quarterly grand rounds on quality improvement and patient safety