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Education Opportunities for Health Professionals


AHRQ's evidence-based products and tools for health professionals provide resources, free continuing education events, curriculum tools, and case studies on how AHRQ's products and tools have been implemented into practice.



Contents

AHRQ-Sponsored Continuing Education Activities
Curriculum Tools
Case Studies in Health Education
Tools and Resources to Improve Care

AHRQ-Sponsored Continuing Education Activities

Comparative Effectiveness

Quality & Patient Safety

  • AHRQ PSNet—A national Web-based resource featuring the latest news and essential resources on patient safety.
  • TeamSTEPPS™—Eligible for CME or Continuing Education Units (CEU) if health care professionals attend the 2½-day training session at one of the 5 National Implementation of TeamSTEPPS™ training centers.
  • AHRQ Web M&M (Morbidity and Mortality Rounds on the Web)—Web site features expert analysis of medical errors reported anonymously by our readers.

Prevention/Care Management

AHRQ Annual Meetings

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Curriculum Tools

  • TeamSTEPPS™—teamwork system designed for health care professionals.
  • U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) Recommendations—recommendations for clinical preventive services. Exit Disclaimer
  • ACTION—a model of field-based research designed to promote innovation in health care delivery by accelerating the diffusion of research into practice.
  • Chest Tube Insertion—DVD for physicians on the correct technique for inserting chest tubes and the common pitfalls in clinical practice.
  • AHRQ Pharmacy Health Literacy—health literacy tools and other resources for pharmacists.
  • Preventing Hospital-Acquired Venous Thromboembolism—a guide to assist quality improvement practitioners in leading an effort to improve prevention of hospital-acquired venous thromboembolism.
  • HCUPnet—online query system for the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) that provides access to health statistics and information on hospital inpatient and emergency department utilization.
  • HCUP On-line Tutorial Series—HCUP Online Tutorial Series provides HCUP data users with information about HCUP data and tools, and training on technical methods for conducting research with HCUP data.
  • Outreach to Academic Health Professional Institutions—lesson plans and teaching activities for instructors who want to implement the recommendations of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force into their curriculum.
  • Patient Safety and Quality: An Evidence-Based Handbook for Nurses—handbook for nurses on patient safety and quality.
  • MONAHRQ—a software product that enables organizations such as state and local data organizations, Chartered Value Exchanges, hospital systems, and health plans to input their own hospital administrative data and generate a data-driven Web site.
  • AHRQ Quality Indicators (QIs)—measures of health care quality that make use of readily available hospital inpatient administrative data.

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Case Studies in Health Education

  • Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health—introduced graduate and doctoral students to the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS), giving students a hands-on introduction to the dataset.
  • Kimball Medical Center—developed a continuing medical education training series as a result of participating in AHRQ's February 2009 Web conference, "Comparative Effectiveness, Safety, and Indications of Insulin Analogues in Premixed Formulations for Adults with Type 2 Diabetes."
  • Philadelphia Department of Public Health—lactation consultant for the Philadelphia Department of Public Health, teaches an 18-hour breastfeeding course using data from the AHRQ Evidence Report No. 153, Breastfeeding and Maternal and Infant Health Outcomes in Developed Countries, in its efforts to promote breastfeeding.
  • Campbell University School of Pharmacy—used AHRQ's Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture in classes that teach pharmacy students to understand and create a culture of safety in their future careers.
  • Banner Good Samaritan Medical Center—used the AHRQ-funded Problems and Prevention: Chest Tube Insertion DVD in its Simulation Education and Training Center. Residents are required to complete a chest tube placement training curriculum prior to inserting the tubes in patients.
  • Duke University Physician Assistant Program—developed a prevention curriculum in 2004 to introduce its students to clinical prevention when they begin their physician assistant studies.
  • Wichita State University: College of Health Professions—the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommendations form the foundation of the "Preventive and Behavioral Medicine" course for physician assistant students curriculum.

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Tools and Resources to Improve Care

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Current as of February 2012


Internet Citation:

Education Opportunities for Health Professionals. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://www.ahrq.gov/clinic/eduopps.htm


 

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