Quality Academy
About the Quality Academy
The BCPSQC Quality Academy is a professional development program delivered over a six month period, with the next cohort starting in April 2012. Participants in the program will attend five in-person residency sessions and will work on a quality project within their organization. Participants will receive support during the program through webinars and one-to-one support from an assigned
Faculty Mentor in addition to access to expert faculty during the program.
Aim and Objective
The aim of the Quality Academy is to provide participants with the capability to effectively lead quality and safety initiatives including the teaching and advising of others in the process of improving health care quality.
Participants will build their knowledge, skills and confidence around the core components of quality improvement including:
- Process and systems thinking;
- Personal and organizational development;
- Involving patients, users, carers, staff and the public;
- Making improvement a habit: initiating, sustaining and spreading change;
- Delivering on cost and quality;
- Problem solving/internal consultancy skills; and
- Innovation for improvement.*
Participants will demonstrate acquired knowledge through design, implementation and evaluation of an improvement project related to the mission, vision and values of their organization.
* Bevan, H. How can we build skills to transform the healthcare system? Journal of Research in Nursing first published on January 22, 2010 as doi:10.1177/1744987109357812.
For more information please contact:
Manny Sahota
Administrative Assistant, BC Patient Safety & Quality Council
Email: msahota@bcpsqc.ca
