PERLHS Academy Curriculum
The schedule for the year is below.*
Note that the lectures are pre-recorded for asynchronous learning.
| Module | Lecture Name | Lab - Main Event |
| July | Introduction to the Learning Health System | Orientation to PERLHS |
| Problem, Project, Product | ||
| August | Research Life Cycle | Using data in the LHS and the IRB |
| Evidence Curation | ||
| September |
Choosing Important Outcomes when Conducting Embedded Research |
What matters to a health system? |
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Conducting Embedded Research to Promote Equity |
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| October |
Team Development, Stakeholder Identification and Examination |
WORKSHOP 1: Best Practices in Engagement |
| Pragmatic Use of LHS Data | ||
| November | Prognostic and Prediction Models | Ethics in Embedded Research |
| Digital Interventions | ||
| December | Experiments in a Clinical Setting | Collecting and Using Social Determinants of Health Information |
| Improving Diagnostic Use | ||
| January | Causal Inference from Observational Data | The Economics of Clinical Operations |
| Quality Improvement and Embedded Research | ||
| February | Implementation research | WORKSHOP 2 Understanding embedded research other Learning Health Systems |
| Team-based embedded research | ||
| March | TBA | Practicalities of EHR-based Interventions |
| TBA | ||
| April | TBA | How to succeed as an academic learning health system scientist? |
| TBA | ||
| May | Final Symposium | |
| June | Scholars begin PCORI peer-review process on their mentor-research project |
*lab sequence is subject to change