Lung Cancer Screening Improvement Collaborative
Mammography Positioning Improvement Collaborative
Prostate MR Image Quality Improvement Collaborative
Recommendations Follow-Up Improvement Collaborative

ImPower Learning Session Assignments

Homework is assigned prior to each ImPower learning session. Participants are expected to do all the assignments prior to attending the learning sessions.   

Pre-Program Training

Session 1    Session 2    Session 3    Session 4    Session 5

Session 6    Session 7    Session 8    Session 9     Session 10



Items listed in the Video, Article and Session Project Work columns should be completed prior to attending each associated Learning Session.
SessionThemeVideo(s)
resource guides available
Article(s)Session Project Work
Pre Program TrainingProgram PreparationLearning Network Syllabus 

Learning Session Overview

QI Coach and Team Leader: Walk the Wall Overview
  • Assemble project team 
  • Work on completing Project Charter and Team Photo
9/18
Session 1
Starting ImprovementTop 10 Problems of Quality Improvement Teams
  • Start project A3


10/2
Session 2
Structured Problem Solving
A3: Left Side

11 Steps to an Effective Gemba Walk

 

Optional resource article: What is Gemba?

All teams: 
  • Document your process map
  • Go observe the process

GIG: 


CT Dose Optimization: 

  • See Learning Session 1 follow-up email for more details
  • Take pictures of your six weeks worth of scatter plots from the CT standardized dose index report (abdomen/pelvis with contrast only).
  • Choose one week and select 30 data points. Then go look at those corresponding studies and then assign image quality scores of 1-5. Label those 30 data points with their corresponding image quality score.


Team Leader or QI Coach: Upload A3 before Walk the Wall
10/16
Session 3
Understanding and Identifying Root Causes


All Collaboratives

Tuning in: Improving Your Listening Skills


General Improvement Group

Read pages 1 -3: Easy Access to Information and EHR Messaging Platform Reduce Discharge Delays


CT Dose Optimization

A Vision for Global CT Radiation Dose


System for verifiable CT radiation dose optimization, Part 1-Optimization Model


System for verifiable CT radiation dose optimization, Part 2-Process control system


10/30
Session 4
Structured Problem Solving
A3: Right Side
No article this week
11/13
Session 5
Visualizing Data & Responding to VariationPixar Chief: Protect Your 'Ugly Babies' (Your Unsightly Ideas)
  • Identify root causes

  • Identify key drivers

  • Check-in with Sponsor to discuss root causes

12/4
Session 6
Designing Processes & SystemsI'm sure glad the hole isn't in our end.... cartoon
  • Modify control chart where needed
  • Annotate control chart to show when intervention(s) occurred
  • Solidify key drivers
  • Plan and test interventions
12/18
Session 7
Creating High Reliability Processes & Solutions


No article this week
  • Continue testing interventions 

  • Annotate your control chart to show when interventions occurred

1/15
Session 8
Developing a Culture of Improvement




1/29
Session 9
Closing Improvement Projects





2/18
Session 10
Graduation





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