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Invite the Next Generation to Lead
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| Reflecting on lessons from 10 years of the IHI Open School, this article shares five practical ideas for how can health care organizations can engage the next generation of health professionals as powerful change agents and leaders. |
Unmet Needs: Teaching Physicians to Provide Safe Patient Care
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| Unmet Needs is the culmination of three Lucian Leape Institute roundtable discussions and makes key recommendations for reforming medical education in order to improve patient safety. The paper was the first in a series of such reports on issues identified as top priorities in ongoing efforts to improve patient safety. |
WIHI: What Students in the Health Professions Can Do for You... and Improvement
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| September 17, 2015 | When you imagine the legions of quality improvers around the globe working hard to transform health and health care, does your picture include students? |
WIHI: From Here to CLER: Graduate Medical Education and the Clinical Learning Environment Review (CLER)
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| September 24, 2014 | Health care is changing, and so is how we educate doctors. Learn how the Clinical Learning Environment Review (CLER) program is aligning graduate medical education training expectations to optimize both value and health. |
Harvard Medical School Academic Innovations Collaborative: Transforming Primary Care Practice and Education
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| The goal of the two-year Harvard Medical School Academic Innovations Collaborative (AIC) was to transform primary care education and practice by engaging hospital- and community-based primary care teaching practices in building highly functional teams, managing populations, and engaging patients. The AIC built on models developed by Qualis Health and the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, optimized for the local academic medical center context. |
Improving Graduate Medical Education: Innovations in Primary Care and Ambulatory Settings: IHI 90-Day R&D Project Final Summary Report
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| This report includes best practices and practical examples of graduate medical education programs that are redesigning training to equip residents and students with the skills needed for primary care practice in a rapidly changing US health care landscape. |
Results of an Effort to Integrate Quality and Safety into Medical and Nursing School Curricula and Foster Joint Learning
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| IHI Open School authors provide insights into incorporating improvement and safety training into required curricula, identifying learning goals that require interprofessional education, and strategies for overcoming common challenges. |
Approaches to Training Faculty at Academic Medical Centers to Ensure That Clinical Trainees Become Effective Improvers: IHI 90-Day R&D Final Summary Report
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| This IHI 90-day R&D project focused on assisting academic medical centers and graduate medical education programs in becoming aligned and capable in quality and safety programming. |
WIHI: Gaining Ground: Quality Improvement and US Medical Residency
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| October 25, 2012 | A changing health care system now demands that medical residents not only possess skills to diagnose and treat patients, but also to to improve the quality of care, protect patients from harm, work in multidisciplinary teams, manage care transitions, and more. |
Leading Change in Health Care Quality with the Institute for Healthcare Improvement Open School
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| The IHI Open School for Health Professions provides the next generation of health-care leaders with the skills to lead improvement in health care. This article in the British Journal of Hospital Medicine discusses how doctors can get involved and implement change at their hospital. |
Author in the Room: Attitudes of Physicians After A Mindful Communication Program
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| November 2009 | A discussion with the author of the JAMA article "Burnout, Empathy, and Attitudes of Physicians After A Mindful Communication Program." |
Preparing medical students for the continual improvement of health and health care: Abraham Flexner and the new "public interest"
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| In 1910, in his recommendations for reforming medical education, Abraham Flexner responded to what he deemed to be the "public interest." Now, 100 years later, to respond to the current needs of society, the education of physicians must once again change. |
WIHI: Alert to Change: New Models for Residency Work Hours
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| January 27, 2011 | There’s no magic, one-size-fits-all solution, but this WIHI talks with a group of experts to shed light on trailblazing ideas and system redesigns that everyone engaged in training health professionals can learn from. |
WIHI: Nursing’s New Roadmap: Education, the Workforce, and Health Care Quality
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| November 18, 2010 | This WIHI reviews the recommendations of the Institute of Medicine report "The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health" and discusses how to turn the report into action. |
WIHI: The Buzz about Medical Training: It’s (Slowly) Changing
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| September 23, 2010 | It’s not easy to turn medical training upside down to better fit the needs of today’s patients and health care system. This WIHI discusses the slow revamp of medical training and talks with three innovators in medical education. |
When Improvement Isn’t in the Curriculum
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| Not every program offers coursework in safety and improvement. But with a little effort, you can get the training you need. Nursing student Montana Schultz suggests a few ideas to get you started. |
An Introduction to the IHI Open School
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| Don Berwick, MD, MPP, President Emeritus and Senior Fellow, Institute for Healthcare Improvement, explains the origins of the IHI Open School. |
Meet the Students: Saranya Kurapati
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| Medical student Saranya Kurapati wants to improve care for people with diabetes who come to her student-run health clinic. The IHI Open School, she says, has empowered her to make real changes in the world around her. |
Meet the Students: Liam Shields
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| Nursing student Liam Shields has always liked to take things apart and then repair them. Now he’s trying to understand how to care for patients more effectively. |
Student Perspectives: Alexi Nazem, Montana Schultz, and Jillian Harvey
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| We're all about the students. So what do they think about quality improvement and patient safety as the backbone of the IHI Open School? |
An Employer's Perspective: Paul Levy
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| Your knowledge of quality improvement may help you get a job — especially if you're looking to work at Paul Levy's hospital. |
Becoming a Writer: An Interview with Pauline W. Chen, MD (Part Two)
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| Pauline W. Chen balances two careers as a surgeon and a writer. Her advice for aspiring writers? Throw yourself into your work as a health professional, but make some time to write along the way. (Part two in a series of interviews with Chen.) |
Becoming a Writer: An Interview with Pauline W. Chen, MD
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| Pauline Chen never planned to be a writer or a surgeon. Now she’s both. How did she get to this point? (Part one in a series of interviews with Chen.) |
Preparing medical students for the continual improvement of health and health care: Abraham Flexner and the new "public interest"
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| In 1910, in his recommendations for reforming medical education, Abraham Flexner responded to what he deemed to be the "public interest." Now, 100 years later, to respond to the current needs of society, the education of physicians must once again change. |
If improvement of the quality and value of health and health care is the goal, why focus on health professional development?
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| Connecting organization and issue-centered strategies for the improvement of health care with health professional development strategies offers an exciting opportunity for the next efforts to improve health care. |
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