HISC Healthcare Improvement Skills Center
HISC at http://improvementskills.org allows doctors to easily maintain board certification covering quality improvement self-assessments, learning modules, and complete quality improvement project CME sponsored by Vanderbilt University and used by American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM), American Board of Pediatrics (ABP) and others! The Healthcare Improvement Skills Center (HISC, version 3.0) is an internet resource for professionals in healthcare. It is here to help you make systematic improvement in the quality of care you provide to your patients. In addition to six HISC quality improvement learning modules, you will find tools to help you plan and assess your QI projects, and to assess your QI skills. The modules can be taken independently, even as you work on a particular improvement effort. Completing all of them is required in order to meet expectations of many residency and board level maintenance of certification programs. Clinicians who complete these self-study learning activities should find it easier to address the quality chasm in their own practices and will be able to: Analyze current care, Generate hypotheses about the link between action and results, Develop ideas about how to improve, Design a test of a change in practice, and Plan to disseminate and sustain successful results.
