ESSENTIALS FOR PRACTICE IMPROVEMENT FOR ONTARIO PHYSICIANS


By popular demand, we are excited to announce two cohorts for 2024 for the Essentials for Practice Improvement for Ontario Physicians!

Cohort 1: 
Dates: April 26, 2024, May 17, 2024, May 31, 2024

Cohort 2: 
Dates: October 4, 2024, October 25, 2024, November 15, 2024

Registration information will be available soon. To be notified when registration opens, please contact Laura Darbon, Conference Planner by email at ldarbon@uottawa.ca. 

Who should attend? 
Ontario family physicians and specialists and their teams who are looking to advance their quality improvement skills and those who are working on their CPSO QI/QA practice improvement plans.

What is the course content? 
This is an interactive, experiential learning program designed to provide a practical approach to quality improvement through skill development, the identification of practice data sources, leveraging your EMR and the application of QI tools to develop a practice improvement plan and its implementation.

How will I learn?

There will be 3 virtual 3 hour sessions with didactic and interactive learning, breakout sessions with trained QI coaches, as well as practice enhancement facilitation by OntarioMD + other QI support between sessions to assist in application of knowledge gained.

Program Layout

 Three Sessions Workshop

  • 3 hours per session of interactive, applied learning through a quality improvement project case 
  • Face to face, engagement between learners and faculty
  • Taught by expert faculty who are experienced in quality improvement
  • Mentorship Between Sessions!

Overall Learning Objectives

By the end of the program, the learner will be able to:

  1. Complete a QI practice plan (such as CPSO or QIIP) 
  2. Identify data sources for use in practice assessment
  3. Prioritize an area(s) for improvement in practice
  4. Develop an approach to implementing a beneficial change
  5. Assess the impact of the improvement change
  6. Establish a system to enable ongoing and future improvements



Faculty of Medicine
Office of Continuing Professional Development

725 Parkdale Avenue
Loeb Research Building, Room WM158
Ottawa, ON K1Y 4E9
cpd@uottawa.ca