Next Level Improvement Science for EMS
A master course for emerging leaders
Now accepting applications | Begins August 2025
We ask a lot of EMS Leaders. You’re responsible for ensuring your organization is fiscally healthy, has a reliable fleet, maintains adequate supplies, provides high-quality clinical care, fosters an engaged workforce, and delivers on the expectations of your regulators and stakeholders. Effective leaders use a system-wide approach to understand and improve every facet of their organization’s reliability and performance.
Are you ready to exponentially expand your improvement knowledge and ability? Do you aspire to be the go-to leader who solves problems and achieves lasting results? Few in our industry can consistently produce meaningful improvements. Join us for a master’s level journey into Improvement Science-based leadership for EMS, where you will develop the ability to:
- Make quality your organization’s leadership strategy and build a culture of continuous improvement.
- Become the indispensable problem-solver on your leadership team.
- Guide leadership teams in evaluating organizational measures and selecting impactful improvement opportunities.
- Integrate your experience with evidence-based practice and the tools of improvement science.
- Develop compelling business cases for strategic improvement initiatives.
- Use qualitative and quantitative methods to understand current performance and identify areas for change.
- Define measures, select the appropriate Shewhart chart, and determine optimal actions based on your data.
- Master the use of Shewhart charts, analyze aggregate data, and understand variation.
- Employ creative approaches to identify change concepts and develop comprehensive change packages.
- Become proficient in rigorous PDSA cycle testing that yields deep knowledge and significant impact.
- Learn advanced PDSA methods for testing multiple changes and understand interactions.
- Develop strategies to implement, scale, and spread improvements effectively.
- Utilize journal-approved guidelines to structure your learning for publication in peer-reviewed journals and presentations at conferences.
- Achieve more meaningful, measurable improvement, faster.
Faculty
David M. Williams, Ph.D., Senior Improvement Advisor and co-author of Quality as an Organizational Strategy. Former senior lead of Improvement Science and Methods and Leadership at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement and an expert on EMS systems.
Mike Taigman, M.A., Improvement Guide at FirstWatch and Associate Adjunct Professor in the Healthcare Administration and Interprofessional Leadership master’s program at University of California San Francisco.
For more information, read the course description.
Interested? Submit an application by Friday April 18th, 2025. Decisions will be made by May 1, and selected individuals will receive an email invitation. After this date, applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.
If you have any questions, please contact us at [email protected].