Improvement and Implementation Curriculum: Improvement Toolkit

This activity introduces clinicians and teams to the essential tools for diagnosing problems, designing solutions, and measuring progress in quality improvement work. Through practical examples, participants gain step-by-step guidance on when and how to use core QI tools so they can quickly apply them to real projects and drive meaningful change.

Target Audience

This activity is designed for clinicians and multidisciplinary project teams seeking to build the skills necessary to lead quality improvement and implementation efforts across UChicago Medicine.

Learning Objectives

After this activity, participants will be able to:

  • Describe common quality improvement tools to build foundational literacy needed for effective participation in improvement work.
  • Apply appropriate QI tools to clinical or process scenarios to support accurate problem diagnosis and effective solution design.
  • Evaluate the benefits and limitations of QI tools to guide informed decision-making across all stages of an improvement project.
Additional information
ACGME/ABMS Core Competencies: 
Practice-based Learning and Improvement
Professionalism
Systems-based Practice

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Summary
Available credit: 
  • 0.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
  • 0.50 Participation
Activity opens: 
01/01/2026
Activity expires: 
12/31/2028
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO FACULTY
Heather Limper Himelhoch, PhD, MPH
Executive Director, Implementation Strategies & Simulation
 
Whitney Westphal, MA, MIS
Manager, Activation & Insights
 
Disclosure Declarations
As a provider accredited by the ACCME, The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine asks everyone in a position to control the content of an education activity to disclose all financial relationships with any ineligible companies. This includes any entity whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients. Financial relationships are relevant if a financial relationship, in any amount, exists between the person in control of content and an ineligible company during the past 24 months, and the content of the education is related to the products of an ineligible company with whom the person has a financial relationship. Mechanisms are in place to identify and mitigate any relevant financial relationships prior to the start of the activity.

Additionally, the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine requires Authors to identify investigational products or off-label uses of products regulated by the US Food and Drug Administration at first mention and where appropriate in the content.
Physician Credit
The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
 
The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine designates this enduring material for a maximum of .50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
 
Other Participant Credit
Other participants will receive a Certificate of Participation. For information on the applicability and acceptance of Certificates of Participation for educational activities certified for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ from organizations accredited by the ACCME, please consult your professional licensing board.
Registration: This activity is only available to University of Chicago affiliates. 
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