Content Alignment

IHI Open School’s curriculum is broadly aligned with key competency frameworks, including ACGME competencies and the AACN Essentials, making it a valuable resource for programs focused on quality and safety education. While individual courses are not designed as one-to-one mappings to these frameworks, they address many of the same core domains, such as patient safety, systems thinking, interprofessional collaboration, and quality improvement.

ACGME Mapping

Course	Patient Care (PC)	Interpersonal and Communication Skills (ICS)	Professionalism (P)	Practice-Based Learning and Improvement (PBLI)	Systems-Based Practice (SBP)
GME 201: Why Engage Healthcare Workers in Quality and Safety?		Shared perspectives on quality and safety engagement	Professional responsibility for quality and safety	Identifying barriers to participation in improvement	Participation in organizational quality and safety systems
GME 202: Designing Educational Experiences in Health Care Improvement		Communicating educational goals and expectations	Educational professionalism	Designing improvement-focused curricula	Integrating education within QI/PS systems
GME 203: A Roadmap for Facilitating Experiential Learning in Quality Improvement		Coaching learners in improvement work		Selecting experiential learning models	Improvement work within clinical systems
GME 204: Aligning GME with Organizational Quality and Safety Goals		Collaboration between education and quality leaders	Leadership accountability for QI/PS	Using organizational activities as learning experiences	Integration into institutional QI/PS infrastructure
L 101: Introduction to Health Care Leadership		Persuasive communication	Professional identity	Reflecting on leadership practice	Leading within organizations
L 103: Publishable QI Projects			Scholarly professionalism	Designing rigorous improvement work
L 201: Workforce Safety			Accountability for safety	Learning from workforce harm	Organizational safety systems
PFC 101: Intro to PFCC	Patient-provider partnerships	Engaging patients and families	Respectful patient-centered practice	Reflecting on care experiences	Care delivery within patient context
PFC 102: Key Dimensions of PFCC	Applying PFCC principles			Improving patient-centered care	Embedding PFCC in organizations
PFC 103: Mindfulness in Clinical Practice	Presence in patient care		Professional self-awareness	Reflective practice
PFC 104: Stigma of Substance Use Disorders	Person-first care	Language to reduce stigma	Ethical language use	Challenging assumptions
PFC 201: Patient & Family Shadowing	Understanding patient experience			Observational learning	Understanding care processes
PFC 202: End-of-Life Conversations	Aligning care with patient goals	Difficult conversations	Ethical end-of-life care	Reflecting on values	Care planning within systems
PFC 203: Age-Friendly Care	Care aligned with what matters			Applying 4Ms framework	Integrating age-friendly care
PS 101: Introduction to Patient Safety	Impact of harm on patients	Speaking up about safety	Accountability for safety	Learning from error	Safety within complex systems
PS 102: From Error to Harm				Analyzing causes of harm	System contributors to error
PS 103: Human Factors and Safety				Applying human factors analysis	Designing safer systems
PS 104: Teamwork and Communication	Patient safety during transitions	Team-based communication		Improving communication practices	Safe transitions across settings
PS 105: Responding to Adverse Events	Patient-centered disclosure	Disclosure and apology	Ethical response to harm	Reflecting on adverse events	Organizational response to events
PS 201: Root Cause Analyses and Actions				Learning from adverse events	System-focused root cause analysis
PS 202: Achieving Total Systems Safety	Partnering with patients/families		Leadership accountability		System-wide safety strategies
PS 203: Just Culture			Professional accountability	Evaluating responses to error	Culture of safety within systems
QI 101: Introduction to Health Care Improvement				Foundations of improvement science	Systems thinking in healthcare
QI 102: Model for Improvement		Team-based improvement work		Applying improvement methods	Testing change within systems
QI 103: PDSA Cycles				Using data to guide improvement	Iterative testing in systems
QI 104: Interpreting Data				Analyzing data for improvement	Understanding variation in systems
QI 105: Leading Quality Improvement		Communicating change	Professional leadership in improvement	Leading improvement work	Managing change within systems
QI 201: Planning for Spread				Assessing readiness to spread	Scaling improvement across systems
QI 202: Addressing Small Problems		Speaking up about problems	Professional responsibility for safety	Learning from small failures	Escalation in complex systems
TA 101: Triple Aim				Applying population health concepts	Health systems impact on populations
TA 102: Improving Health Equity		Cross-sector communication	Professional responsibility for equity	Identifying inequities	System approaches to equity
TA 103: Increasing Value and Reducing Waste			Ethical resource stewardship	Evaluating low-value care	Value-based care systems
TA 104: Anti-Racism Work		Dialogue about racism	Professional accountability	Reflecting on bias	Structural change in systems
TA 105: Conservative Prescribing	Shared agenda with patients & families when making prescribing decisions	Communication about risks, benefits, and conservative options	Professional accountability in prescribing decisions	Interpreting evidence about risks/benefits to inform safer prescribing	Considering long-term health outcomes and minimizing harm within systems
TA 201: Pathways to Population Health				Strategic population health planning	Organizing population health systems

AACN Mapping

Domains

Course	Domain 1: Knowledge	Domain 2: Person-Centered	Domain 3: Population	Domain 4: Scholarship	Domain 5: Quality & Safety	Domain 6: Interprofessional	Domain 7: Systems-Based	Domain 9: Professionalism	Domain 10: Leadership
GME 201: Why Engage Healthcare Workers in Quality and Safety?	Foundations of quality and safety for healthcare workers				Rationale for engaging staff in quality and safety work	Engagement of healthcare workers across disciplines	Participation in organizational quality and safety systems	Professional responsibility for quality and safety	Early engagement in improvement as leadership development
GME 202: Designing Educational Experiences in Health Care Improvement	Core quality improvement and patient safety topics			Design of QI/PS educational curricula		Curriculum design for interprofessional learners	Integration of education within QI/PS systems		Building educational capacity in improvement science
GME 203: A Roadmap for Facilitating Experiential Learning in Quality Improvement					Experiential learning to improve quality and safety	Team-based experiential learning models	Improvement work within clinical systems		Coaching learners in improvement roles
GME 204: Aligning Graduate Medical Education with Organizational Quality & Safety Goals					Alignment with institutional quality and safety priorities	Collaboration between education and quality leaders	Integration into organizational QI/PS infrastructure		Leadership strategies to align education and improvement
PFC 101: Introduction to Person- and Family-Centered Care	PFCC principles and models	Patient–provider partnerships			PFCC as a quality dimension	Collaboration with patients/families	Care delivery within patient context	Care delivery within patient context
PFC 102: Key Dimensions of PFCC	Core PFCC concepts	PFCC dimensions and practices			PFCC as system-wide approach		Embedding PFCC in organizations
PFC 103: Incorporating Mindfulness into Clinical Practice	Mindfulness concepts	Presence in patient care			Mindfulness and patient safety			Professional self-awareness
PFC 104: Confronting the Stigma of Substance Use Disorders	Understanding SUD as chronic disease	Person-first, recovery-focused care						Professional language use
PFC 201: Patient and Family Shadowing		Seeing care through patient/family eyes			Identifying improvement opportunities		Understanding care processes
PFC 202: Conversations about End-of-Life Care		Respecting patient goals and wishes					Care planning within systems	Professional communication standards
PFC 203: Providing Age-Friendly Care	Age-friendly care principles	Care aligned with what matters			Reducing harm in older adults		Integrating 4Ms into care systems
PS 101: Introduction to Patient Safety	Foundations of patient safety science	Impact of harm on patients and families			Culture of safety; harm prevention	Team roles in patient safety	Escalation and learning from system failure
PS 102: From Error to Harm	Error and harm theory				Error-to-harm frameworks		System contributors to adverse events
PS 103: Human Factors and Safety	Human factors principles				Designing safer systems		Human–system interaction
PS 104: Teamwork and Communication		Engaging patients and families through communication			Communication strategies to reduce harm	Team-based communication tools	Safe transitions across care settings
PS 105: Responding to Adverse Events		Patient-centered disclosure and apology			Response to adverse events	Team response following harm	Organizational response to events	Professional accountability after harm
PS 201: Root Cause Analyses and Actions (RCA2)					Learning from adverse events	Interdisciplinary RCA teams	System-focused root cause analysis
PS 202: Achieving Total Systems Safety		Partnering with patients and families			System-wide safety strategies		Leadership for safe systems		Leadership actions for safety
PS 203: Pursuing Professional Accountability and a Just Culture					Accountability and safety culture		Organizational culture assessment	Professional accountability
QI 101: Introduction to Health Care Improvement	Foundations of improvement science		Population-level improvement aims		Improvement methods to enhance quality		Systems thinking in healthcare
QI 102: How to Improve with the Model for Improvement	Improvement methodology				Testing changes to improve quality	Team-based improvement work	Systematic testing of change
QI 103: Testing and Measuring Changes with PDSA Cycles	Measurement for improvement				Testing and measuring change		Iterative system testing
QI 104: Interpreting Data	Data interpretation skills				Using run and control charts		Understanding variation in systems
QI 105 Leading Quality Improvement	Leading improvement work				Managing improvement projects	Interdisciplinary teamwork	Leading change within systems		Improvement leadership skills
QI 201: Planning for Spread			Spread of improvement across populations		System-wide improvement strategies		Scaling change across systems
QI 202: Addressing Small Problems					Reliability and failure prevention		Escalation within complex systems
TA 101: Introduction to the Triple Aim	Triple Aim framework		Population health strategies		Improving value and outcomes		Health systems impact on populations
TA 102: Improving Health Equity	Health equity concepts		Reducing disparities			Community and cross-sector partnerships	System approaches to equity
TA 103: Increasing Value and Reducing Waste	Value-based care concepts				Resource stewardship		High-value care within systems	Professional responsibility for stewardship
TA 104: Building Skills for Anti-Racism Work	Anti-racism concepts		Equity-focused population health			Collective action for equity	Structural change in systems	Professional responsibility for equity
TA 105: Conservative Prescribing	Principles of conservative prescribing and risk/benefit assessment	Shared agenda with patients and families			Reducing medication-related harm	Collaboration across care team for prescribing decisions	Considering long-term health outcomes in prescribing	Professional accountability in prescribing
TA 201: Pathways to Population Health	Population health portfolios		Organizing population health efforts			Cross-sector collaboration	Population health strategy		Leadership for population health
L 101: Introduction to Health Care Leadership	Leadership concepts in healthcare					Leading teams across disciplines	Leading within healthcare organizations	Professional identity formation	Leadership as action
L 103: Making Publishable QI Projects Part of Everyday Work				Scholarship in improvement work			Integrating improvement into daily work	Scholarly professionalism
L 201: The Role of Leaders in Workforce Safety	Workforce safety principles				Workforce safety and harm prevention	Collaboration to improve safety	Systems approaches to workforce safety	Accountability for workforce safety	Leadership responsibility for safety

AACN Mapping

Concepts

Course	Concept 1: Clinical Judgment	Concept 2: Communication	Concept 3: Compassionate Care	Concept 4: DEI	Concept 5: Ethics	Concept 6: Evidence-Based Practice	Concept 8: Social Determinants
GME 201: Why Engage Healthcare Workers in Quality and Safety?	Identifying barriers to participation in improvement	Shared perspectives on quality and safety engagement
GME 202: Designing Educational Experiences in Health Care Improvement						Selection of evidence-informed QI/PS content
GME 203: A Roadmap for Facilitating Experiential Learning in Quality Improvement	Selecting appropriate experiential learning models
GME 204: Aligning Graduate Medical Education with Organizational Quality & Safety Goals						Organizational QI/PS activities as learning experiences
Applying partnership models	Applying partnership models	Engaging patients and families	Respectful, empathetic care	Cultural context of care
PFC 102: Key Dimensions of PFCC	Applying PFCC principles
PFC 103: Incorporating Mindfulness into Clinical Practice	Situational awareness in care		Compassionate presence
PFC 104: Confronting the Stigma of Substance Use Disorders	Challenging stigmatizing assumptions	Language to reduce stigma	Respectful, nonjudgmental care	Equity in SUD treatment	Ethical language use
PFC 201: Patient and Family Shadowing	Observational learning		Empathy development
PFC 202: Conversations about End-of-Life Care	Decision-making aligned with patient values	Difficult conversations	Compassionate conversations		Ethical end-of-life discussions
PFC 203: Providing Age-Friendly Care	Applying 4Ms framework					Evidence-based age-friendly practices
PS 101: Introduction to Patient Safety	Recognizing safety risks	Speaking up about safety
PS 102: From Error to Harm	Analyzing causes of harm
PS 103: Human Factors and Safety	Applying human factors analysis
PS 104: Teamwork and Communication		SBAR, handoffs, briefings
PS 105: Responding to Adverse Events	Responding to adverse events	Disclosure and apology	Compassionate response to harm		Ethical response to adverse events
PS 201: Root Cause Analyses and Actions (RCA2)	Identifying contributing factors
PS 202: Achieving Total Systems Safety
PS 203: Pursuing Professional Accountability and a Just Culture	Evaluating responses to error				Fair and just responses
QI 101: Introduction to Health Care Improvement	Applying improvement theory					Applying improvement theory
QI 102: How to Improve with the Model for Improvement	Selecting aims and measures					Measurement-driven improvement
QI 103: Testing and Measuring Changes with PDSA Cycles	Interpreting data for decisions					Using data to guide improvement
QI 104: Interpreting Data	Analyzing variation					Measurement tools for improvement
QI 105 Leading Quality Improvement	Decision-making in improvement	Communicating change
QI 201: Planning for Spread	Assessing readiness to spread
QI 202: Addressing Small Problems	Recognizing system failure	Speaking up about problems
TA 101: Introduction to the Triple Aim	Applying population health concepts						Determinants of population health
TA 102: Improving Health Equity	Identifying inequities			Structural inequities		Evidence-informed equity strategies	Social drivers of inequity
TA 103: Increasing Value and Reducing Waste	Evaluating low-value care				Ethical resource use	Evidence-informed value decisions
TA 104: Building Skills for Anti-Racism Work	Reflecting on bias and racism			Anti-racism practices			Structural racism
TA 105: Conservative Prescribing	Interpreting evidence about risks/benefits	Creating shared agenda with patients/families	Safe, patient-focused medication use		Ethical prescribing decisions	Evaluating evidence for new medications
TA 201: Pathways to Population Health	Strategic decision-making					Evidence-informed population strategies	Community-level factors
L 101: Introduction to Health Care Leadership	Decision-making in leadership	Persuasive communication
L 103: Making Publishable QI Projects Part of Everyday Work	Designing rigorous improvement projects					Evidence-informed improvement methods
L 201: The Role of Leaders in Workforce Safety	Assessing workforce risk				Ethical responsibility for safe work environments

Content Alignment

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Content Alignment

ACGME Mapping

AACN Mapping

Domains

AACN Mapping

Concepts