Internal Medicine

Boost your QI and Patient Safety Knowledge and Skills!

Sign up and use HonorHealth's Academic Affairs' IHI Open School subscription* to access multimedia courses designed to improve patient care, patient safety, and patient outcomes. Take individual modules in quality improvement, patient safety, system design, leadership, or population management OR earn the 13 course Certificate in Quality and Safety.

*Residents and Fellows need to create an account.

Faculty, please see IHI information on the Faculty and Development guide.

Where to start?

• Get excited! - the power of quality improvement with a short video by Dr. Mike Evans.
• PS 105: Responding to Adverse Events.  Patient Safety course.  Using a patient-centered approach, you will learn about the 4 steps to take following an adverse event, how to communicate bad news & apologies, and understand how adverse events affect providers. *Requires residents/fellows to create account.
• What Happened to Josie?  Video. Case study of avoidable patient harm
• The Patent and the Anesthesiologist.  Videos.  Case study highlights clinician response to medical errors, how medical errors affect both patients & clinicians, and behaviors clinicians should practice when apologizing to patients.

(Having problems with login? contact Deb Schneider: dschneider@honorhealth.com or 480-323-3870)

Raise the Rates Initiative: an HonorHealth-ACP data-driven collaboration to support patients, physicians, health care teams, systems, and communities in raising adult immunization rates and reducing vaccine-preventable diseases. 

Raise the Rates Initiative supports internists and other primary care providers making practice changes to promote immunizations and increase immunization awareness.

• Recorded lecture: The Public Health Benefit of Adult Immunizations – recorded lecture
• Recorded lecture: Vaccination Practice Management Tips for Providers  - recorded lecture