Activity ID
2020Expires
December 31, 2024Format Type
InternetCME Credit
1Fee
VariableCME Provider: Institute for Healthcare Improvement
Description of CME Course
In this course, we’ll take you through basic concepts you need to know to run successful PDSA (Plan-Do-Study-Act) cycles in a clinical setting. First, we’ll teach you how to plan and conduct a small scale tests of change. We’ll discuss how you can establish a helpful set of measures and how to design a data collection plan that facilitates rapid learning, such as through sampling. Next, we’ll focus on studying the data you’ve collected, and we’ll explain why a run chart is such a valuable tool at this stage of the process. Finally, we’ll show you how to act on your learning, possibly by increasing the size or scope of your next test cycle.
The IHI Open School offers a range of online courses created by world-renowned faculty in improvement capability, patient safety, triple aim for populations, person- and family-centered care, leadership, and quality, cost, and value. Each course takes approximately 1 to 2 hours to complete and consists of three to five lessons that end with assessments.
Diplomate Engagement
Learners must complete the course and achieve a passing score of 75% on each post-lesson assessment to receive a certificate of completion.
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Commercial Support?
NoNOTE: If a Member Board has not deemed this activity for MOC approval as an accredited CME activity, this activity may count toward an ABMS Member Board’s general CME requirement. Please refer directly to your Member Board’s MOC Part II Lifelong Learning and Self-Assessment Program Requirements.
Educational Objectives
To describe the process of collecting data for improvement work.
To explain the value of sampling within quality improvement work.
To explain the value of tracking and plotting data over time.
To identify and interpret the basic elements of a run chart.
Keywords
Health Care Improvement, Health Care Errors, Systems Thinking, Improvement Model, Aims, Measures, Outcome Measures, Process Measures, Balancing Measures, Change Concept, Theories of Change, PDSA Cyle, Run Chart, Shewhart Chart, Deming's Theory, Display Data, Collection Data, Quality Improvement, Quality Care, Innovation
Competencies
Interpersonal & Communication Skills, Systems-based Practice
CME Credit Type
AMA PRA Category 1 Credit
Physician Well-being activity
Organizational Culture of Wellness
Practice Setting
Academic Medicine, Inpatient, Outpatient, Physician Executives, Rural, Urban, VA/Military
