Welcome to the IHI Open School for Health Professions online courses!

 

The IHI Open School currently offers a range of online courses in the areas of quality improvement, patient safety, patient- and family-centered care, managing health care operations, and leadership. Each course takes roughly an hour to two hours to complete and consists of several lessons taking 15-30 minutes each.

You’ll take a quiz at the end of each lesson.
To pass, you need to answer at least 75% of the questions correctly.

The IHI Open School’s online courses are available to non-student professionals on a subscription-only basis. (Scholarships may be available based on need.) We offer the courses free of charge to students, university faculty who are teaching courses, medical residents, and users from the Least Developed Countries. All other
IHI Open School resources, including the Chapter Network, are free for all.

Click here to browse current offerings and start taking courses

Links:

> Upcoming Courses
Learn about courses to be published in 2013

> Subscription Information
View frequently-asked questions about subscribing to the IHI Open School courses

> IHI Certificates of Completion and Continuing Education Credits
Find out about earning credit for IHI Open School courses

> Sample Lessons
Take the course QI 102: The Model for Improvement: Your Engine for Change

For the courses in other languages, choose one of the following: Español   Português

Purchase Information
You can browse the course catalog for free, but accessing the course content requires a subscription. Scholarship funding is available based on need.
Click to purchase a subscription:
IHI Open School Courses – Individual Subscription (2013)
An individual subscription gives you full access to the entire IHI Open School course catalog for 12 months.  You’ll also have automatic access to any new online courses we release during that time. 
IHI Open School Courses – Organization Subscription (2013)
An organization subscription gives members of your organization full access to all the IHI Open School courses for 12 months. You’ll have automatic access to any new online courses we release during that time. You can also track your users’ course completion rates and test results with our convenient, easy-to-use reports.
Technology Requirements
  • Microsoft Windows 1998, 2000, XP, ME, Vista, or Macintosh
  • Internet Explorer 6.0+, Mozilla Firefox 2.0+, Opera 9.0+, Safari 3+. Javascript and Cookies must be enabled.
  • Microsoft Office 2000 or later (Word, Excel, and PowerPoint will be used)
  • Adobe Acrobat Reader
  • Minimum connection speed of 64 kilobits per second (without watching video).
  • To watch educational videos, need connection speed of 256-512 kilobits per second. Non-IE browsers will require Microsoft Silverlight Player plug-in.
Questions or concerns? Please email us at openschool@ihi.org.