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  IHI Open School Courses

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NEW COURSE!  Leadership 101: So You Want to Be a Leader in Health Care?

The IHI Open School including all of our online tools and resources, and our online courses is open and free for students of all health care professions.  During this limited prototyping phase, we are also making these resources available for free to non-students.

We currently offer seven online courses in the areas of quality improvement, patient safety, and leadership, and we’re adding more all the time.  Each course takes roughly an hour to complete and consists of several lessons taking 15-20 minutes each. 

You’ll take a quiz at the end of each lesson. To pass, you need to answer at least 75% of the questions correctly.


>> Course Catalog

Find out about current offerings and start taking courses


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Upcoming Courses

Learn about courses to be published in Fall 2009

>> IHI Certificates of Completion and Continuing Education Credits (Coming Soon)

Get information on gaining credit for completing IHI Open School courses


NOTE: When accessing the IHI Open School courses, you must first log in to IHI.org.  Here's what to do:

1. Go to IHI's online learning system and choose "Log In/Register" in the top right corner.

2. If you're already registered with IHI.org, log in.  If not, please register.  Once you're done, you'll be directed back to the online learning page.

3. Take a course!

 Technology Requirements
  • Microsoft Windows 1998, 2000, XP, ME, Vista, or Macintosh
  • Internet Explorer 6.0, 7.0, Mozilla Firefox 2.0, 3.0, Opera 9.0, Safari 3. Firefox and Opera browsers require Microsoft Silverlight plug-in to play educational videos.
  • Microsoft Office 2000 or later (Word, Excel, and PowerPoint will be used)
  • Adobe Acrobat Reader
  • Minimum connection speed of 64 kilobits per second (without watching video).
  • To watch educational videos, need connection speed of 256-512 kilobits per second.

 

 

NOTE: Could this site be better? Is something missing that ought to be here? Email us at openschool@ihi.org to tell us how the site can better serve your needs.