Are you a future health professional who is passionate about improving not just health care, but the health of communities? Are you committed to reducing health inequities? If you’re this type of change agent, IHI’s 100 Million Healthier Lives — an initiative dedicated to transforming the way the world thinks and acts to improve health — wants to send you to its spring meeting in Orlando, Florida. Your challenge Tell us how you would improve health equity in 140 characters or fewer. What you co ... read full post

Quality improvement work isn’t done until you’ve shared it. So says Dr. Greg Ogrinc, a foremost expert in QI publishing, who helped establish the Standards for Quality Improvement Reporting Excellence (SQUIRE) guidelines. Dr. Ogrinc, Director of the Quality Literature Program and Senior Associate Dean for Medical Education at Dartmouth Medical School, presented his tips for publishing QI work to IHI Open School students on a recent Global Chapter Call. You can access the full record ... read full post

Health professions students can play a critical role in quality improvement initiatives, both during their training and in their careers.