Professional Development

VTE Prevention Collaborative

Your local quality improvement (QI) team can receive a year of mentoring (at no cost) from SHM Experts with VTE and QI expertise to design, evaluate and sustain a VTE prevention initiative.

Mentors will work with each site leader to tackle site-specific issues using proven QI techniques. Mentoring includes eight scheduled telephone calls offered over a 12 month period, ad hoc e-mails, and instruction organized around the VTE QI Implementation Guide, SHM's step-by-step guide for developing a VTE prevention program. (The Implementation Guide can also serve as a self-study guide.)
Read more about VTE Prevention Collaborative.

SHM QI Training

SHM’s Quality Improvement Precourse
Held at Hospital Medicine 2008

Course Overview
This pre-course will enable hospitalists to become leaders of breakthrough levels of quality and safety, through the effective implementation of evidence-based, high-reliability interventions. Participants will learn techniques for designing, implementing, and evaluating quality improvement projects. The participant may choose from one of three sessions: VTE, Glycemic Control, or Care Transitions.
View the schedule from Hospital Medicine 2008 for more information

View Schedule.

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

• Apply basic quality improvement concepts including setting aims, establishing measures, and selecting changes to a specific improvement project
• Improve the quality of patient care using important clinical processes in areas such as preventing VTE, managing hyperglycemia, or managing care transitions
• Describe the history of the hospital quality and safety movement over the past 20 years and major concepts that have emerged

Be sure to register for the Quality Precourse during Hospital Medicine 2009, May 13 - 16, 2009 at Hyatt Regency, Chicago, IL. Check the Events page of hospitalmedicine.org in the coming months for more information.

Other Opportunities

North American Thrombosis Forum (NATF)
NATF online.org, the official website of the North American Thrombosis Forum, provides online and live education opportunities for healthcare providers and patients.
Visit NATFonline.org for more information.