Safety Quality Informatics
Leadership Program
Office of Global Education
Harvard Medical School
© 2015 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College
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Safety Quality Informatics Leadership Program
• A 1-year long Masters-level scholarly program targeted to
develop skills and practical knowledge in the learning health
system.
• “What you need to know for now and the future”
• Three strands: leadership, information technology, quality and
safety
• Innovative pedagogy
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Workshop style teaching
Interactive webinars
In class case discussions
Capstone project
• Top global faculty, including from HMS, HSPH and HBS; global
leaders
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Program Overview
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Core Curriculum Lectures
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Core Curriculum Lectures (Cont’d)
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Webinar
Schedule
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London Workshop
Location: 170 Queen’s Gate, Imperial College London
Learning Objectives
• To articulate the key principles of a LHS
• To understand how quality, safety and informatics serve as the
backbone of the LHS
• To see how the UK health care system is evolving to a LHS
• To recognize the interrelationships between how leadership,
policy and research align with a LHS
Other Objectives
• For students to develop a collegial relationship with their peers
and to connect with course faculty
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Faculty
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Sir Liam Donaldson
Mike Pringle, RCGP
Aziz Sheikh
Charles Safran
Allen Kachalia
Ken Sands
Michael Howell
Sonali Desai
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Schedule – Day 1 – 4/24
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8:30 AM – Welcome, Review of Course Structure (A. Singh/ S. Desai)
9:00 AM – Overview LHS (A. Sheikh)
10:00 AM – Overview Clinical Informatics (C. Safran)
11:00 AM – Coffee break
11:30 – Leadership: Overview of QI/ PS Org Structures with Q and A (A. Kachalia/
K. Sands)
12:30 PM – Lunch
1:30 PM –Mortality and Rapid Response Case Discussion (A. Kachalia/ M. Howell)
3:00 PM – Break
3:30 PM –Showcase UK Healthcare System (Sir Liam Donaldson and Mike Pringle)
[TBD: A review of UK Errors; A Global View on Patient Safety] (A. Sheikh)
5:00 PM – Adjourn
6:00 PM – Reception
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Schedule - Day 2 – 4/25
• 8:30 AM – Announcements, Q&A from students (A. Singh/ S. Desai)
• 9:00 AM – Measuring and Improving Quality: A Departmental Model (S.
Desai)
• 10:00-11:30 AM –Using IT to improve Q/ PS: What Works and What
Doesn’t Case Discussion (C. Safran/ K. Sands), 11-11:15 AM Coffee break
• 11:30 AM – Medical Liability: A Global Perspective (A. Kachalia)
• 12:30 PM – Lunch
• 1:30 PM- A Comparison of Policy and Structure of QI/ PS – The UK vs The
US (A. Sheikh/ M. Howell/ M. Pringle)
• 3:00 PM – Coffee break
• 3:30 PM – Case Discussion Ambulatory Safety/ Medical Errors (S. Desai/
M. Howell) and Case Discussion Transparency (K. Sands/ A. Kachalia)
• 5:00 PM - Adjourn
• 6:00 PM – Reception
• 7:00 PM – Dinner – Guest Speaker: Sir Liam Donaldson - UK Errors
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Schedule - Day 3 – 4/26
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8:30 AM – Announcements (A. Singh/ S. Desai)
8:45 AM –Managing AE/ Disclosure Case Discussion (K. Sands/ A. Kachalia)
10:15 AM – Coffee break
10:30 AM –Case Discussion Ambulatory Safety/ Medical Errors (S. Desai/
M. Howell) and Case Discussion Transparency (K. Sands/ A. Kachalia)
12:00 PM – Lunch
1:00 PM – Value concepts in Healthcare (M. Howell)
1:45 PM– Patient Engagement: the Future Role of Patients in Improving
Quality and Safety (K. Sands)
2:30 PM - Coffee break
2:45 PM - New Uses of Data: A Transatlantic Perspective (C. Safran and A.
Sheikh)
4:15 PM – Adjourn
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Dubai Workshop
• Dubai – “Implementing change: simulation as
a mechanism for the LHS”
• Dates: September 19-21, 2015
• Goal: primarily use simulation as a vehicle to
both educate and actively engage fellows in
clinical examples. Examples could be: Boston
marathon, Ebola, codes, IT system “down”
• Faculty: Eric Goralnick, Aziz Sheikh, Charlie
Safran, Local Dubai Q/S/I Leaders
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Mohamed Bin Rashid Academic Medical Center
in Dubai
• World class simulation center and teaching
facility
• 2 full operating rooms, emergency bay area,
inpatient ward
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Harvard Workshop
• At Harvard Medical School– “Leading Change –
teamwork, leadership, innovation and change
management”
• Dates: April 8-10, 2016
• Goal: To understand the key aspects of leadership
that enable change. To become a better leader. To
understand how teams work. Importance of
innovating. Understanding how to manage
change.
• Faculty: Harvard Business School, HSPH and HMS
faculty
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Capstone Project
• Opportunity for student to demonstrate his/her ability to
integrate and apply the knowledge and skills acquired from
the SQIL program.
• Required to design, implement and evaluate the impact of a
patient safety/quality care improvement project in a selfselected area of interest.
• Demonstrate understanding, content synthesis, and
application of the patient safety material learned during the
program at an advanced level, as well as his/her ability to
demonstrate effective leadership skills to satisfy the
requirements for graduation.
• Work collaboratively with other team members on their
individual capstone projects.
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Skills training
• Work on a capstone project – a project that
demonstrates measureable improvement in
an area of health care process design, clinical
outcomes, or waste/cost reduction.
• Skills training using case discussions in class
• Practical skills development in a world-class
simulation.
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Team exercises
• Three team exercises
– Team Presentation #1 Pitch Your Project
– Team Presentation #3 Intermountain Health Care
– Team Presentation #2 Reducing Errors
• Promote collaborative effort and online
interaction
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Assessment
• Academic
– Online multiple choice quizzes after each lecture
– Faculty panel review of team presentations
– Capstone project
• Engagement
– Proportion of lectures reviewed
– Proportion of webinars attended
– Involvement at workshops and team events
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Assessment
• Scholars must attend >75% of webinars to
obtain a ‘pass’
• Scholars must
– complete all online quizzes that follow webinars
– Complete three team-based assignments
– Submit and pass the Capstone project assignment
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Graduation
• Scholars in good standing who comply with
the program requirements will receive a
‘Certificate of Completion’ from Harvard
Medical School
• Scholars will be eligible to become Associate
Members of the Harvard Medical School and
Harvard University Alumni Association
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Who Should Apply
• SQIL is designed for
– people who work in clinical quality or patient
safety, either in a hospital or a health system.
– Medical doctors, nurses, administrative leaders
and policy makers
– Candidates with doctoral-level degree (for
example: MD, PhD, MBBS, MBChB, DNP, MSN,
DMD, DDC, PharmD), or master’s level degree (for
example: MBA, MPH, MSc).
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Application Information
• Online application process-rolling admissions
process
• Fee: $14,900 by March 27
• ($13,900 by Jan 31st – deadline has passed)
– Covers tuition for online course material and
workshops
– Does not cover books, supplies, software, or travel
and accommodation expenses
© 2015 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College
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