Academic Engagement
 The Health Quality Council (HQC) works with the University of Saskatchewan, University
of Regina, and the Saskatchewan Institute of Applied Science and Technology to ensure
that the health care workforce of the future has the tools and methods to make quality
improvement (QI) an integral part of practice and service delivery.
With our partners, we have developed and delivered curriculum - that integrates online
learning from the
Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) Open School - for a number of undergraduate
programs, including Health Studies, Medicine, Nutrition, Pharmacy, and Physical Therapy.
HQC has also worked with post-graduate students from the Masters of Public Health
and Family Medicine Residency programs.
Faculty development is key to this initiative. We are seeing growing interest among
faculty in doing quality improvement research, which should in turn increase their
capacity to teach QI to health sciences students and conduct further research in
the area.
What's New:
The Health Quality Council is the 2nd place winner of Academy for Healthcare Improvement's
2009 Duncan Neuhauser Curricular Innovation Award. HQC won for its submission,
An Adaptable Interdisciplinary Methodology
for Integrating QI Curriculum into Undergraduate Health Sciences Education. (December,
2009)
Further information for students:
The Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) offers an
Open School for Health Professions. It is an online interprofessional educational
community that gives students the skills to become change agents in health care improvement. The
Open School - including all IHI online tools and resources, and their online courses
- is open and free for students of all health care professions.
For more information on how you can be involved in quality improvement activities
in Saskatchewan, or join fellow students interested in quality improvement please
contact Christina Southey: csouthey@hqc.sk.ca
.
Further information for faculty:
Quality Improvement Innovations
in Health Care: Studying What Works, Where and Why - a presentation by Tanya Verrall,
Senior Researcher at the Health Quality Council, given on January 15, 2010 as part
of the Speaker Series, Office of Applied Research and Innovation at the Saskatchewan
Institute of Applied Science and Technology.
Faculty Quality Academy
List of quality improvement
resources for students and faculty.
For more information on our academic engagement activities, please contact Kyla Avis:
kavis@hqc.sk.ca / (306)668-8810, ext. 141.
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