Module | Description |
1. Course induction | Orients participants to the learning platform functionality, course objectives and learning compact. Helps participants consider their improvement project scope. |
2. Improvement kata introduction | Provides a structured, four-step routine for learning and applying improvement science and helps participants establish and communicate their project. |
3. Introduction to Lean | Introduces the principles of Lean and helps participants to consider how value is defined and how waste manifests within processes. |
4. The building blocks of processes | Demonstrates the effect of process variation and helps participants to design it out and document processes through observation and waste elimination. |
5. The flows of healthcare | Introduces participants to seven flows that comprise healthcare processes and how to observe, document and process map them. |
6. Workplace organisation | Helps participants apply a five-step process to organise workplaces and use visual methods to design more effective, efficient and reliable processes. |
7. Pursuing perfection | Introduces a structured approach to continuous improvement through iterative experimentation using the model for improvement and PDSA. |
MOOC, massive open online course; PDSA, plan–do–study–act.