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Medium Of InstructionsMode Of LearningMode Of Delivery
EnglishSelf StudyVideo and Text Based

Courses and Certificate Fees

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The Syllabus

Videos
  • QIH.M01 Welcome
  • QIH.1.09b Quality Improvement and Translational Research
  • QIH.1.09c Improvement in Practice: The Complexity of Improving Care
  • QIH.1.09d Making Improvements in Complex Systems: the SHIFT-Evidence Framework
Readings
  • About Imperial College London
  • How to be successful in this course?
  • Introduction  to Quality Improvement in Healthcare
  • Meet The Team
  • Formative assessments
  • Grading Policy 
  • Glossary
  • QIH.1.01Why is Quality Improvement in Healthcare Important?
  • QIH.1.02b Why Should We Focus on Quality in Healthcare: Examples
  • QIH.1.04 Delivering Quality Health Services: A Global Imperative for Universal Health Coverage (WHO 2018)
  • QIH.1.05 The Global Implications of Poor Quality Healthcare
  • QIH.1.06 Delivering Quality Health Services: A Global Imperative for Universal Health Coverage (WHO 2018)
  • QIH.1.09a The Michigan Keystone Intensive Care Unit Project
  • QIH.1.12 - Quality Improvement: from Origins to Modern Practice
  • QIH.1.10 Approaches to Quality Improvement
Practice Exercises
  • QIH 1.04a Delivering Quality Health Services: A Global Imperative for Universal Health Coverage (WHO 2018) 
  • QIH.1.11M

Videos
  • QIH.2.02: Learning from People's Experiences of Healthcare
  • QIH.2.04: Learning from the Experiences of Community Organisers
  • QIH.2.08 Leadership and Improvement: Empowering People to Change
  • QIH.2.09a: Programme Theory in Quality Improvement
  • QIH.2.09b: Programme Theory in Practice: Improving Flu Vaccine rates
Readings
  • QIH 2.01 Introduction to Engaging and Empowering Stakeholders
  • QIH.2.05 Community Engagement during the COVID-19 Pandemic – Lessons for Healthcare Quality Improvement
  • QIH.2.06 Stakeholder Engagement 
  • QIH.2.07 Actively Engaging those Responsible for and Affected by Change
  • QIH.2.11The Action-Effect Method: Programme Theory as a Collaborative Endeavour
  • QIH.2.12 The Human Side of Change
Practice Exercises
  • QIH.2.07a Actively Engaging those Responsible for and Affected by Change
  • QIH.2.08M: Stakeholder Engagement
  • QIH.2.10M: Action Effect Diagrams and Programme Theory

Videos
  • QIH.3.04a: Process Mapping in Healthcare Quality Improvement Initiatives
  • QIH.3.04b: Process mapping in Practice: Improving Hand and Wrist Fracture Clinic Services
  • QIH.3.05a: The Plan-Do-Study-Act cycle: a Scientific Approach to Improvement
  • QIH.3.05b: The Plan-Do-Study-Act cycle: Improvement in Action
Readings
  • QIH.3.03: What are the Benefits of Process Mapping, and How Can Improvement Teams Realise These Benefits?
  • QIH.3.06 The Plan-Do-Study-Act cycle: a Worked Example
  • QIH 3.08: Using Data to Drive Improvement in Healthcare
Practice Exercises
  • QIH.3.09M: Process Mapping
  • QIH.3.10M: The PDSA Cycle

Videos
  • QIH.4.03: Reflecting Upon Long Term Success to Sustain Improvements in Healthcare
  • Video QIH.4.04d: Improving Obstetric Care in Low-Resource Settings: Implementing of Accompaniment to Women for Facility-Based Maternity Care in Rural Guatemala
  • QIH.5.03: Fidelity of Use of Quality Improvement Methods
  • QIH.M02 Course summary
Readings
  • QIH.4.01Case study - Rapid Implementation of Virtual Clinics due to COVID-19: Report and Early Evaluation of a Quality Improvement Initiative
  • QIH.4.04M Planning for Long Term Success: the Long Term Success Tool
  • QIH 4.04b Case Study: A new Typology for Understanding Context: Qualitative Exploration of the Model for Understanding Success in Quality
  • QIH.4.04c Analysing Context Using MUSIQ v2.0
  • QIH.5.01 Quality Improvement: Evidence for Effectiveness
Practice Exercises
  • QIH.4.05M: Long Term Success and the Role of Context
  • QIH.4.10M Bringing it all together

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