Education & Training for Health Professionals

Continuing Education

AHRQ provides free continuing education events in the areas of comparative effectiveness, quality and patient safety, and prevention/care management as well as through our annual conferences. These continuing education opportunities are described here.

Curriculum Tools

AHRQ offers several curriculum tools that health care professionals can use to make care safer and improve their communication and teamwork skills. Information on these tools is provided here.

• Diabetes Planned Visit Notebook
• Advancing Pharmacy Health Literacy Practices Through Quality Improvement
• TeamSTEPPS
• Staying Healthy Through Education and Prevention (STEP)
• Chronic Care Model
• CLABSI Tools
• CUSP Toolkit
• Shared Decision Making Toolkit

Toolkits

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) offers practical, research-based tools and other resources to help a variety of health care organizations, providers, and others make care safer in all health care settings.