Course Catalog
The IHI Open School curriculum covers a variety of topics that are relevant to today’s healthcare workforce, such as quality improvement, patient safety, health equity, and graduate medical education. Most courses offer Continuing Education (CE) credits that can be redeemed with an applicable Open School subscription plan.
IHI Open School Courses
$10–20 USD
Learn how to adapt care to the circumstances and behavior of individual patients.
$10–20 USD
Understand the relationship between climate change, healthcare, and human health.
$10–20 USD
Learn how to use quantitative and qualitative feedback to evaluate the quality of services in your practice.
Learn why organizations should strive to incorporate trainees in quality and safety work.
Learn how to create an effective curriculum to teach quality improvement and patient safety.
Learn how to create an effective curriculum to teach quality improvement and patient safety.
Learn about strategies to engage workers with their organization's quality improvement and patient safety efforts.
Learn about the characteristics of successful leaders and the techniques they use to improve care.
Learn how to prepare your improvement project for publishing and wider adoption.
$10–20 USD
Explore the role of leaders in keeping their healthcare workforce safe, both physically and psychologically.
Learn about the ideal relationship between patient and provider to promote health.
$10–20 USD
Learn the core concepts of patient-centered care as described by the Institute for Patient- and Family-Centered Care.
$10–20 USD
Learn about the benefits of incorporating mindfulness into your healthcare setting.
Learn to recognize substance use disorders as a chronic disease that can be prevented and treated.
Learn about shadowing and how to use it to empathize with patients and families.
$10–20 USD
Develop the skills to have conversations with patients and their families about their preferences for care at the end of life.
Learn to define age-friendly care and an overview of the 4Ms framework.
Learn the importance of patient safety and a framework for building safer, more reliable systems of care.
Learn about the relationship between error and harm using the Swiss cheese model of error.
Learn how to incorporate knowledge of human behavior in the design of safe systems.
Learn what makes an effective team through case studies from healthcare and elsewhere.
Learn a 4-step, patient-centered approach to use when things go wrong.
$10–20 USD
Get an introduction to a systematic response to error called Root Cause Analyses and Actions (RCA2).
$10–20 USD
Review eight key recommendations for achieving safety on a system-wide level.
$10–20 USD
Learn how organizations can create and foster a culture of safety.
Start your journey to becoming a healthcare change agent.
Learn how to use the Model for Improvement to improve everything from your tennis game to your hospital’s infection rate.
Learn the basic concepts to run successful PDSA (Plan-Do-Study-Act) cycles in a clinical setting.
Learn how to draw an effective run chart to visualize your progress toward improvement.
Learn how to manage a project to completion and develop skills in interdisciplinary teamwork.
$10–20 USD
Learn how to spread your change or innovation across a population.
$10–20 USD
Learn how successful organizations escalate the small concerns and suggestions of employees.
Learn the importance of scaling clinical care improvement to affect entire populations.
$10–20 USD
Explore health disparities: what they are, why they occur, and how you can help reduce them in your local setting.
Get an overview of value in healthcare.
Build skills to counter structural racism and improve health equity.
Get an overview of conservative prescribing and how to weigh the risks and benefits before prescribing medications.
Learn how to use a roadmap to set and operationalize your organization’s population health strategy.
Take Select Courses for Free
TA 103, TA 104, and PFC 203 can be taken for free without an Open School subscription. To access one of these courses, log in or create an account at education.ihi.org, then go to "browse catalog" and search for your course. Click the "Enroll" button and the course will be made available to launch from your Learning Center.
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