Level II QI Fundamentals

Two-day course for physicians and health professionals to develop introductory skills on how to test & measure change, understand systems, build a team and sustain project gains.

Learning objectives:

  • Understand the role of QI in healthcare and key differences between QI, quality assurance (QA) and Research
  • Articulate a well scoped quality problem
  • Create a specific aim statement
  • Describe tools that can be used in a current state analysis
  • Generate a Family of Measures and describe how data over time is used in QI
  • Know how to select a good change Idea
  • Describe the steps of a PDSA cycle
  • Describe enabling factors that make a QI project successful
  • Recognize the impact of culture on a QI project and how to engage key partners in your work
  • Learn how to create a compelling case for your QI project
  • Describe the importance of planning for implementation and sustainment of QI
  • List the steps required to close a QI project