Professional Development

American Heart Association (AHA) 

AHA offers educational courses/workshops for health care professionals. Listed below are a few of the popular courses and programs:

-    Get with the Guidelines Workshops/ or Online courses
-    Heart Failure Programs
-    Emergency Cardiovascular Care (ECC)
-    AHA Satellite Broadcasts

View the AHA Professional Education Center

SHM QI Training

Quality Improvement Skills Course

Course Overview:
The 2009 Quality Pre-Course held at Hospital Medicine 2009 SHM’s Annual Meeting was re-designed to expose hospitalists of all experience levels to effective quality improvement projects. In an interactive format, multiple successful QI projects were profiled by the hospitalists who have led them. Participants had a chance to see key QI principles reappear in each project, while also gaining exposure to alternative strategies. The participant choose from one of three sessions: VTE, Glycemic Control, or Care Transitions.

Check back for 2010 Quality Precourse information  

Objectives:
At the conclusion of this activity, participants will be able to:

• Describe how a hospitalist can communicate a vision to lead improvement in hospital care
• Describe the power of standardization, especially when coupled with high reliability strategies
• Describe features of a useful data system and how an effective multidisciplinary team can achieve specific performance goals