Centre for Quality Improvement and Patient Safety

The Centre for Quality Improvement and Patient Safety (CQuIPS) is a joint partnership between the University of Toronto’s Temerty Faculty of Medicine and three of its major teaching hospitals, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, the Hospital for Sick Children and Women’s College Hospital. Its mission is to accelerate and deepen the work of people and organizations that are passionate about enhancing quality and patient safety.

CQuIPS is a leading training and learning centre for QI. It has a well-established international reputation in QI education and runs three advanced QI certificate programs, a healthcare improvement fellowship and contributes to the Masters of Science with a concentration in QIPS offered by the University of Toronto Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation (IHPME). CQuIPS is the only hub for the distinguished Veteran Affairs Quality Scholars Fellowship outside of the United States, and has recently taken over the lead organization overseeing the international SQUIRE writing guidelines for QI.

Over the past 15 years, CQuIPS has trained over 900 people who now work as QI leaders and experts in healthcare organizations around the world. Many of these alumni maintain strong connections to CQuIPS as faculty for our programs, invited speakers, and collaborators on QI projects and research.

• Graduates have gone on to assume leadership QI positions in local, and increasing national/international organizations (e.g., Medical Director of Quality, QI Curriculum Lead)
• Senior trainees who completed EQUIP have newly appointed to academic faculty positions at prominent academic institutions;
• A number of alumni have successfully completed their QI projects and published their findings in peer-reviewed journals.