At the 25th Annual IHI National Forum, the IHI Open School team decided to present a different type of session. Instead of one or two people lecturing to an audience, we crowdsourced the knowledge and had a debate.  In two sessions, both titled “Getting By With a Little Help From … Students?,” we asked Forum attendees to debate whether students were actually helpful to institutional quality improvement projects. We covered three topics (time, interprofessional challenges, and goal alignment) in ... read full post

There's a good chance that Rishi Desai, MD, has taught you something. If not you, he's almost certainly taught someone you know. Desai, a pediatric infectious disease attending at Stanford University School of Medicine, creates content about health care and medicine for the wildly popular Khan Academy.   Desai, the Medicine Team Lead at the Khan Academy, humbly estimates that he's delivered about two million lessons. There's no question that he delivered an eye-opening one at the IHI Faculty M ... read full post