Fundamentals

The PQI Level II workshop provides physicians with hands-on opportunities to build fundamental QI skills that can be applied in practice settings.

    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