GME 202: Designing Educational Experiences in Health Care Improvement

Overview

In this course, we’ll discuss how to create an effective curriculum to teach quality improvement and patient safety. We’ll provide some examples of organizations that have been successful in this endeavor, along with a planning checklist any institution can use. We’ll also highlight some organizations that are successfully integrating didactic sessions with experiential training — a topic we’ll discuss further in the next course in this series.

Course Objectives

After completing this course, you will be able to:

1. Explain what kinds of topics are important to include in a didactic curriculum on quality improvement and patient safety for healthcare workers.
2. Give examples of available quality improvement and patient safety training materials, and explain how they could be integrated into a curriculum.
3. Describe the characteristics of a successful quality improvement and patient safety curriculum for adult learners.
    

Estimated Time of Completion: 1 hour 15 minutes

Continuing Education Credits

Course completion typically earns 1.25 Continuing Education credits. Please read the full details to ensure that this course offers your desired credit type. Learn more about Continuing Education credits

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In support of improving patient care, the Institute for Healthcare Improvement is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

This course is approved to provide 1.25 credits for physicians, nurses, Certified Professional in Patient Safety (CPPS) recertification, and MOC for the boards listed below.

Lifelong Learning (MOC Part 2 CME)

• American Board of Anesthesiology (ABA)
• American Board of Allergy & Immunology (ABAI)
• American Board of Colon & Rectal Surgery (ABCRS)
• American Board of Pathology (ABPath)
• American Board of Psychiatry & Neurology (ABPN)
• American Board of Plastic Surgery (ABPS)
• American Board of Nuclear Medicine (ABNM)
• American Board of Thoracic Surgery (ABTS)
• American Board of Urology (ABU)

Self-Assessment (MOC Part 2 SA)

• American Board of Family Medicine (ABFM) (5pts)*
• American Board of Ophthalmology (ABOP)
• American Board of Orthopedic Surgery (ABOS)
• American Board of Radiology (ABR)
• American Board of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (ABPMR)

Note: American Board of Pediatrics (ABPed) approval is pending.

*To receive ABFM MOC Part 2 SA, learners must complete GME 201, GME 202, GME 203, and GME 204.