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SQIL
The Harvard Medical School Safety, Quality and Informatics Leadership Program
The Harvard Medical School Safety, Quality and Informatics Leadership (SQIL) Program
HMS MISSION
To create and nurture a diverse community of the best people committed to leadership in alleviating human suffering caused by disease.
DEAN’S MESSAGE
The Harvard Medical School Safety, Quality and Informatics Leadership (SQIL) program is a tremendous opportunity to explore the cornerstone of high-quality healthcare. SQIL is an intensive one-year certificate program is designed to develop knowledge and skills in patient safety, quality, informatics and leadership. A deep understanding of patient safety is inextricably linked to the delivery of quality healthcare, and SQIL’s students will develop the skills and knowledge in the science and implementation of safety and quality programs in a hospital setting. This is the fundamental premise of the Institute of Medicine’s Learning Health System concept -a common thread in SQIL. The program consists of three in-person 3-day workshops at the program’s beginning, mid-point and conclusion, with online courses, webinars and instruction during the 12-month period. The blended learning approach to this one-year program enables clinicians, administrators, policy makers and leaders in quality, safety and informatics from around the world to participate.
SQIL utilizes an innovative, blended-learning approach. The workshops flank its core curriculum components, combining traditional live teaching methods with online instruction, team projects and interactive webinars. This unique mix of individual and cooperative learning provides each student with strong critical thinking skills. SQIL aims to encourage career development by bringing this unique training to the next generation of leaders, providing an unparalleled foundational program from which participants can launch or further advance an exciting and rewarding career in healthcare.
David H. Roberts, MD Dean for External EducationHarvard Medical School
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SQIL’s blended-learning style harnesses the immense power of interactive web-based learning and combines it with face-to-face, team- and individual-based teaching methods. All instructional materials are prerecorded and available online, making this a truly global and continuously available virtual classroom. During each workshop, which complement the online learning activities, students will interact Harvard-based faculty and instructors from other leading institutions and learn the art of critical thinking, team building and problem-solving.
The program curriculum is comprised of approximately 20 interactive webinar lectures and 30 recorded online lectures of 45 minutes each, in three core areas: Leadership, Informatics, and the Principles of Patient Safety and Quality Improvement. The webinars and lectures are supported by the three workshops, involving case discussions around the Learning Health System, implementing change in the skills development setting of a Simulation Center, and learning how to integrate Quality, Safety and Informatics into the healthcare delivery environment.
During the program’s final phase, students will be expected to develop and present a project, the Capstone Project, which will demonstrate a strategy for measurable improvement in an area that addresses either safety, clinical outcomes, efficiency (waste and cost reduction), patient satisfaction or healthcare process design. All participants who achieve the program objectives are granted a Certificate of Completion, and will be eligible to become Associate Members of the Harvard Medical School and Harvard University Alumni Association.
The SQIL curriculum will enable students to:
• Undeerstand the scientific underpinnings of safety, quality, and clinical informatics
• Develop leadership skills, focused on effecting change
• Address quality and safety issues in a clinical context using a case based approach
• Organize, write and, potentially, implement a proposal for a safety/quality/informatics project relevant to their clinical setting
Learn more about the SQIL program on the Web at www.hms.harvard.edu/sqil.
Aziz Sheikh, MBBSCo-Director, SQIL Program
Professor of Primary Care Research & Development
Co-Director of the Centre for Population Health Studies
University of Edinburgh College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine
Charles Safran, MDCo-Director, SQIL Program
Chief, Division of Informatics
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Associate Professor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Sonali Desai, MD, MPHCo-Director, SQIL Program
Director of Quality, Department of Medicine
Director of Ambulatory Patient Safety
Attending RheumatologistBrigham and Women’s HospitalAssistant Professor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Ajay K. Singh, MBBS, FRCP (UK), MBA
Co-Director, SQIL ProgramAssociate Dean for
Global EducationHarvard Medical School
ABOUT THE PROGRAM
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KEY FEATURES
• Senior faculty from Harvard Medical School and other leading academic institutions
• Blended approach of online and interactive teaching
• team-based learning
• 24/7 access to online learning materials
OVERALL STRUCTURE
• Approximately 50 online webinars and lectures designed to expand lecture topics and to promote critical thinking and problem-solving
• three skills-based workshops. the workshops offer a mix of didactic and practical exercises and are designed to promote collaborations and team approaches to solving research problems
• Capstone Project, designed to demonstrate a strategy for measurable improvement in an area that addresses either safety, clinical outcomes, efficiency, patient satisfaction or healthcare process design
HMS FACULTY
Heather BaerMujeeb BassetDavid BatesJennifer BeloffAlexander CarboRebecca CunninghamChristian DankersSonali DesaiJessica DudleyPatricia FolcarelliDorothy GoulartJeffrey GreenbergAllen KachaliaAshish JhaJohn MearaJohn Pawlowski,Yuri QuintanaSandhya K. RaoJohn RossiCharles SafranKenneth SandsJo ShapiroAjay Singh Robert SutfinJonathan TeichAnjala TessThomas TsaiNeil Wagle
GUEST FACULTY
Julia Adler-Milstein University of Michigan Schoolof Public Health
Sir Liam Donaldson Imperial College
Charles Friedman University of MichiganSchool of Public Health
Michael HowellUniversity of Chicago Medicine
Andrew MorrisChief Scientist for HealthGovernment of Scotland
Mike Pringle, PresidentRCGP, and University of Nottingham
Aziz Sheikh University of Edinburgh
Hardeep SinghUniversity of Texas Health Science Center
Dean SittigUniversity of TexasHealth Science Center
Jonathan Weiner Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
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SQIL CURRICULUM AND PROGRAM CONTENT
SQIL’s core curriculum is divided into four components: Quality Improvement, Patient Safety, Health Informatics and Statistical Measurement and Analysis. In addition, SQIL participants choose an elective course in either Clinical Effectiveness (with topics around health policy, economics and the disciplines if clinical effectiveness) or Leadership (which will focus on leadership that effects change in patient safety, implements new processes and examines organizational structure).
The curriculum is delivered through the live webinars and recorded online lectures, and is anchored by the three workshops in London, Dubai and Boston which will concentrate on elements of the Learning Health System. Throughout the twelve month program
participants work on individual and team assignments, completing the program with an individual Capstone Project with input from a faculty mentor,
"The SQIL Program will bring together current or to-be-leaders in
health care with top faculty from Harvard. The goal of SQIL is to make
physicians, nurses and administrators better leaders. This program is
acquiring knowledge and skills that will make you more effective, but
it's also about developing your global network of like-minded people
who work in health care." – Dr. Ajay K. Singh Associate Dean for global Education Harvard Medical School
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THE LEARNING HEALTH SYSTEM
tHE LEARnIng HEALtH SyStEM
A common thread in the SQIL Program is
emphasis on the Institute of Medicine’s concept
of the Learning Health System “…designed
to generate and apply the best evidence for the
collaborative healthcare choices of each patient
and provider; to drive the process of discovery as
a natural outgrowth of patient care; and to ensure
innovation, quality, safety, and value in health care
… in which science, informatics, incentives, and
culture are aligned for continuous improvement
and innovation, with best practices seamlessly
embedded in the delivery process and new
knowledge captured as an integral by-product
of the delivery experience ....”
CORE LEARnIng
• Patient Safety– Understanding the epidemiology, causes and consequences of medical errors– Strategies to reduce the incidence and disease burden resulting from medical errors
• Quality
– Measuring quality in clinical practice– Engaging frontline staff in improving quality
• Informatics– Using clinical decision support to enhance quality and safety– Utilizing databases and data mining
• Leadership– Effecting change in health care– Assessing organizational structures and priorities
CORE CURRICULUM
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SQIL CURRICULUM AND PROGRAM OVERVIEW
WORKSHOP 1LOnDOnApril 24-26
2015
WORKSHOP 2DUBAI
Sept. 19-212015
WORKSHOP 3BOStOnApril 8-10
2016
Longitudinal Seminar Series by Webinar
team Presentation team Presentation
Capstone Project
team Presentation
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SQIL is uniquely tailored to the
needs of the physician, nurse and
administrative leaders who either
work or seek to work in safety,
quality and informatics. The blended
educational approach allows students
to access state-of-the-art instruction
anywhere in the world at a time
and location convenient to their
individual needs.
– Ajay K. Singh, MBBS, FRCP (UK), MBA Associate Dean for Global Education Harvard Medical School
The blended learning methods
of SQIL provide a unique
opportunity to begin developing
these capabilities and to forge
collaborations around the world.
Working in teams throughout the
program promotes collaborative
effort, and access to program
faculty throughout the year for
methodologic guidance and
support make this program unique
and exciting.
– Heather J. Baer, ScD Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School Assistant Professor of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health
SQIL will allow students to
critically assess the needs of
their local research environment,
pose clinically-relevant research
questions, formulate testable
hypotheses and design robust
clinical studies. Similarly, those
who devote the majority of their
time to caring for patients will
benefit immensely from learning
how to dissect and interpret the
medical literature most relevant to
their individual patients.
– Salmaan Keshavjee, MD, PhD Associate Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine Harvard Medical School
April 24 – 26, 2015 The first workshop takes place at Imperial College London, UK, and includes sessions on the principles of patient safety, potential errors and corrective action, performance improvement models, performance measurement and analytics, and choosing targets for quality improvement intervention. During this workshop, SQIL participants will be organized into their working teams for the entire 12-month program.
September 19 – 21, 2015 The second workshop takes place at the Maktoum Academic Medical Centre, located at Dubai Healthcare City, UAE, and focuses on the principles of quality improvement and safety, and importance of team work and team leadership. The workshop will include sessions in a simulation centre to replicate operating room, emergency room and ward-based situations.
April 8 – 10, 2016The third and final workshop takes place at Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA. Sessions will focus on examples of learning health systems, and long-term sustainment and feasibility. At the workshop’s conclusion, each student receives a Certificate of Completion.
SQIL WORKSHOP DATES
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CONTACT INFORMATION
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FINAL REGISTRATION:
The final registration payment for accepted applications of $14,900 (USD) must be received by Friday, March 27, 2015.
The online application form is available at: http://hms.harvard.edu/sqil.
To qualify for early registration tuition, all application materials must be received by the early registration dates. All applications will be reviewed by a Faculty Admissions panel. Tuition includes fees for the three workshops and all four modules (summer, fall, winter, and spring). Fees do not include books, supplies, statistics software, or travel expenses.
APPLICATION INFORMATION
Who should apply? The Harvard Medical Safety, Quality and Informatics Leadership program is designed for clinicians, administrators and policy makers in in leadership roles in clinical quality and/or patient safety. Candidates for the program should indicate any doctoral-level degree (for example: MD, PhD, MBBS, MBChB, DNP, MSN, DMD, DDC, PharmD), or master’s level degree (for example: MBA, MPH, MSc).
Applications are accepted from November 1, 2014 to March 27, 2015.
EARLY REGISTRATION:
The early registration payment for accepted applications of $13,900 (USD) must be received by Friday, January 14, 2015.
Telephone: +1-617-432-7256Email: [email protected]: hms.harvard.edu/sqil
SQIL ProgramOffice of Global EducationGordon Hall, Suite 015 25 Shattuck StreetBoston, MA 02115
Telephone: +1-617-432-7256Email: [email protected]: hms.harvard.edu/sqil
SQIL ProgramOffice of Global EducationGordon Hall, Suite 015 25 Shattuck StreetBoston, MA 02115
The Harvard Medical School Safety, Quality and Informatics Leadership Program
© 2014 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College