Scholarship

Penn CHIPS encourages QI teams to pursue scholarship. Below are curated lists to help you identify opportunities for learning, collaboration and dissemination of quality and safety work.

*Dates are subject to change. Please review the organization’s website for the most up to date schedule.

QI and Safety Conferences and Meetings

Meeting name (alphabetical order) Meeting focus

Meeting month*

(deadline)

Academic Pediatric Association/ Pediatric Academic Societies

 

Quality Improvement, patient safety

 

April/May

(January)

 

April/May

(December)

 

Varies

AAMC Integrating Quality Meeting

(https://www.aamc.org/initiatives/quality/ & https://web.cvent.com/event/ec42cd27-6f83-4da2-a6ae-b77871e7c339/summary)

Quality improvement, medical education

June

(January)

AAP National Conference, Council on Quality Improvement and Patient Safety (COQIPS):

https://services.aap.org/en/community/aap-councils/council-on-quality-improvement-and-safety/

Quality Improvement, Patient Safety

October

(April)

AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting

(https://academyhealth.org/events)

Health services research

June

(January)

AcademyHealth / NIH Annual Conference on the Science of Dissemination and Implementation in Health (https://academyhealth.org/events) Implementation science

December

(August)

Children’s Hospital Association – Quality/Safety Conference, & webinars throughout the year

(https://www.childrenshospitals.org/Events/Upcoming-Events)

Quality Improvement, Patient Safety

March

(September)

Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) National Forum

(http://www.ihi.org/education/Conferences/National-Forum/Pages/default.aspx)

Quality improvement

December

(September)

IHI Scientific Symposium (1-day meeting within IHI National Forum)

(http://www.ihi.org/education/Conferenc­es/National-Forum/Pages/Scientific-Symposium.aspx)

QI research

Improvement science

December

(September)

IHI Patient Safety Congress

http://www.ihi.org/education/Conferences/Patient-Safety-Congress/Pages/default.aspx

Patient Safety May
(March)

International Forum on Quality & Safety in Healthcare

(http://internationalforum.bmj.com/)

Quality improvement

Patient safety

Europe – June

International Society for Quality in Healthcare Conference

(https://isqua.org/events.html)

Quality improvement

Patient safety

July

(Feb-March)

SIDM (Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine)

https://www.improvediagnosis.org/sidm2021-call-for-abstracts/

Quality improvement

Patient safety

October

(June)

Other non-quality/safety meetings “friendly” to QI/PS submissions

Check your specialty’s societies and journals — most have a section for improvement / clinical practice innovation workAmerican Medical Informatics Association Annual Symposium

(https://www.amia.org/meetings-and-events)

 

Human Factors and Ergonomics in Healthcare

(https://www.hfes.org/Events/Future-Meetings)

 

 

Resources for finding journals and meetings

PubsHub (through proxy server): http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/94538

 

Journal/Author Name Estimator: http://jane.biosemantics.org/

 

Biomedical Library Resources: http://guides.library.upenn.edu/hlthsci-research-resources/hlthsci-research-publishing