1. First Name Last Name
Event Name
Date of Event

2. • When: Launched in September 2008
• Why: Because too many patients suffer from low quality care
• Who: Health graduate students (nursing, pharmacy, medicine,
health management, etc.)
• Where:
o Online: www.ihi.org/openschool
o Face-to-Face: Chapter Network
• What you can do:
o Join our Chapter
o Complete a course online
o Access free online resources (audio, video, case studies)
o Join the next WIHI: *INSERT UPCOMING WIHI DATE AND TITLE*
o Attend the IHI National Forum in December 2012
Overview

3. “Advance health care improvement and patient
safety competencies in the next generation of
health professionals worldwide.”
IHI Open School Mission
IHI Open School Chapter Congress, Dec 09

4. IHI Open School Chapters

5. What do Chapters do?
• Education
o Work with your Faculty Advisor to identify courses where resources can be incorporated
o Create an elective for your campus
• Projects
o Lead an improvement project for your student-run health clinic
o Join an improvement project or patient safety initiative at a local hospital
o Participate in national projects and competitions
• Group activities
o Review a case study with an interprofessional group
o Host a guest speaker from a local health care organization
o Start a journal club
o Facilitate an IHI Open School Chapter activity (available online)
• Visit the IHI Open School website to learn more:
o Chapter Progress Report Results
o Chapter Posters
o Community Updates
o Weekly Chapter Notes newsletter

6. Leadership
Topic Leader: Jim Reinertsen, MD, Senior Fellow, IHI
◊ L 101: So You Want to Be a Leader in Health Care?
Patient Safety
Topic Leader: Lucian Leape, MD, Adjunct Professor of Health Policy, Dept. of Health Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public Health
◊ PS 100: Introduction to Patient Safety ◊ PS 104: Root Cause and Systems Analysis
◊ PS 101: Fundamentals of Patient Safety ◊ PS 105: Communicating with Patients after Adverse Events
◊ PS 102: Human Factors and Safety ◊ PS 106: Introduction to the Culture of Safety
◊ PS 103: Teamwork and Communication ◊ E PS1: Partnering to Heal: Teaming Up Against Healthcare-
Associated Infection
Quality Improvement
Topic Leader: Lloyd Provost, MS, Associates in Process Improvement
◊ QI 101: Fundamentals of Improvement ◊ QI 104: Putting It All Together
◊ QI 102: The Model for Improvement ◊ QI 105: The Human Side of Quality Improvement
◊ QI 103: Measuring for Improvement ◊ QI 106: Level 100 Tools
Patient-and-Family-Centered Care
Topic Leader: James Conway, MS, Faculty, Harvard University School of Public Health; Sue Sheridan, MIM, MBA, President, CAPS
◊ PFC 101: Dignity and Respect
Managing Health Care Operations
Topic Leader: Eugene Litvak, PhD, President and CEO, Institute for Healthcare Optimization
◊ MHO 101: Achieving Breakthrough Quality, Access, and Affordability
Population Health
Topic Leader: Jonathan Finkelstein, MD, MPH, Associate Professor, Harvard University Medical School
◊ PH 101: Introduction to Population Health
Course Catalog

7. Certificate of Completion
Requirements
o Quality Improvement 101-106
o Patient Safety 100-106
o Leadership 101
o Patient-and-Family-Centered Care 101
o Managing Health Care Operations 101

8. Chapter Name
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• Chapter Leader Name
o Contact info
• Faculty Advisor Name
o Faculty info
• Chapter Website, Blog, Facebook Group?
• Chapter Goals
• Activity/Event Info
• Next Meeting: DATE

9. Thank you to the IHI Open School’s generous donors
TheRxFoundation
TheKaiserPermanenteCommunityBenefit
TheJohnD.andCatherineT.MacArthurFoundation
The Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
…and many individual donors too numerous to mention:
http://www.ihi.org/IHI/Programs/IHIOpenSchool/IHIOpenSchoolFundraising.htm