Curriculum overview
The Healthcare Leadership in Quality Track combines immersive didactic training, experiential learning, mentorship, and scholarly work over two years.
Curriculum components
Participants complete three weeks of immersive instruction focused on quality improvement, patient safety, healthcare systems, data analytics, informatics, leadership, and improvement science.
Participants design and implement a quality, safety, or informatics project with guidance from faculty mentors. Five virtual bootcamp sessions provide structured support for project development, implementation, and dissemination.
Participants engage in real-world quality and safety work throughout the program by:
- Participating in a specialty-based quality, safety, or informatics committee
- Attending monthly committee meetings
- Leading a departmental educational conference focused on quality, safety, or informatics
Participants complete several experiential and scholarly activities, including:
- Safety event analysis
- Project transition workshop
- Abstract development and submission
- Capstone project presentation
Participants may elect to work with a leadership mentor to reflect on their professional growth and develop leadership skills through guided mentoring sessions during year two.