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Table 2 Description of online modes

From: Virtual adaptation of traditional healthcare quality improvement training in response to COVID-19: a rapid narrative review

Modality

Description

Flipped curriculum/flipped classroom

Instructional content delivered through online modes before class and class time used for knowledge application [16, 21, 23, 28]

Virtual breakthrough series collaborative

Virtual adaptation of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) face-to-face collaborative model through webinar-based educational delivery [32]

Dedicated web portal/QI site

In-house QI sites developed to provide access to QI tools, resources, and training [19, 22]

Interactive online delivery

Didactic lectures delivered live online allowing participants to participate in real time [17, 20]

Video lectures

Pre-recorded didactic lectures made available to participants [25]

Phone/app/email-based methods

QI questions sent out to participants through text messages, phone apps or email [26, 27]

Online modules to supplement classroom delivery

IHI QI modules [14, 15, 24, 31]

Self-developed QI modules [19, 29]

  1. Summary of major online modes used by studies in delivering QI training and education