Program Introduction
The Schulich-Ivey Quality in Healthcare Consultancy is a pioneering 6-month educational experience that offers Ivey business students the opportunity to apply their business knowledge to real-world quality improvement gaps in a healthcare setting at the London Health Sciences Center (University Hospital).
The program was founded by two leading academic institutions at Western University: the Ivey Business School and the Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry. The Center for Quality, Innovation and Safety (CQUINS), a department of the Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, developed this educational program which has been recognized as a certified course by the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada. Learn more about CQUINS here.
The program was recently featured in Ivey News (here) and Schulich Stories (here).
Program Details
This is the 5th year of the Schulich-Ivey Quality in Healthcare Consultancy Program. The 2022-2023 cycle will begin September 27th, 2022 and run through to April 4th, 2023.
Any student currently enrolled at Ivey may apply. Application deadline has been extended to Wednesday September 21st at 11:59pm. There will be no interview round due to the time constraint. Selected students will be placed into groups of 3-5 and assigned to a leading physician and their project. Each physician accepted into the program has submitted a project proposal and been approved for the 2022/23 cycle.
Project Examples: 2021/22 Winning Projects
- Enhancing seizure diagnosis timeliness in critically ill children by training nurses to read simplified EEG trends.
- Reducing length of stay and associated hospital costs for select liver transplant patients by bypassing the ICU post surgery.
- Improving access to MRI for treatment and diagnosis by cutting MR Sim scans.
- You may view more projects here.
Selected students are expected to commit (inclusively) 2-3 hours bi-weekly to the program. Educational content includes online mini-videos by course clinical lead Dr. Alan Gob and features seminars by a variety of expert guest speakers. Seminars will be held bi-weekly on Tuesdays from 6:00-8:00pm at the Ivey Business School.
Fall semester will focus on understanding the project goal, root causes, stakeholders involved and solution generation through 5 mini-assignments finishing with Boardroom Pitch on December 6th. Winter semester will focus on implementing and analyzing solutions through PDSA cycles finishing with a QI Poster and Capstone Presentation on April 4th. You may view course syllabus here.
If you have any questions please reach out to your student co-leads Caroline Parsons (cparsons.hba2023@ivey.ca) and/or Mila Gracic (mgracic.hba2024@ivey.ca).
