IHI Fellowship Program Application

Professionals in quality and safety roles who are looking to take their strategic, operational, and thought leadership skills to the next level, including but not limited to:

• Director level in quality or safety or risk
• Senior managers in quality or safety or risk
• Patient safety or quality officers
• Directors of risk management
• Emerging clinician leaders
• Other industry professionals such as human factors engineers
• Patient advocates
• Boundary spanners (individuals who work across the system and are on a trajectory to lead a system)

• Access to key modules from the IHI Open School, to refresh knowledge of improvement science and patient safety principles and methods before starting their fellowship
• Access to the Certified Professional in Patient Safety (CPPS) online review course and credentialing exam
• Two three-day virtual retreats
• Bi-weekly live virtual meetings
• Bi-weekly self-paced online learning modules
• Independent learning assignments
• A final presentation made to program peers, faculty, and project sponsor from the participants home organization

​Safety and Qua​lity

• ​Cutting-edge safety and quality science​​
• Quality management systems
• Co-design and co-production
• Innovation, implementation, spread, scale-up, and sustainability
• Quality and safety in other industries
• Qualitative and ethnographic inquiry
• Equity and safety/quality
• Culture
• Measurement​

Leadership

• ​Leadership in safety and quality improvement
• Innovation/implementation
• Change/change management
• Resilience
• Influence
• Adaptive leadership
• Psychology of change
• Presentation and pitching skills ​