The Pediatric Pandemic Network’s Quality Improvement Writing Group (QIWG) offers an avenue for translating quality improvement work into scholarly products. The QIWG transforms projects into journal-ready manuscripts in 10 virtual sessions over 20 weeks. Sharing local work provides the opportunity to improve patient care on a larger scale by spreading successes and challenges, allowing for rapid cycle improvement and potentially avoiding duplication of failures.
Course Overview
This mentored curriculum-based writing group — with 10 virtual sessions over 20 weeks—will support participants to transform projects into journal-ready manuscripts.
Sessions are one hour and delivered via Zoom.
Participation will require approximately 2-5 hours per week to research, draft, review, and revise to achieve the best possible product.
Mentors
- Chisom Agbim, MD, MSHS, Stanford Children’s Health
- Jennifer Melvin, MD, Nationwide Children’s Hospital
- Kate Remick, MD, Dell Children’s Hospital
- Lori Rutman, MD, MPH, Seattle Children’s Hospital
- Sandra P. Spencer, MD, Children’s Hospital Colorado
- Irina Topoz, MD, Children’s Hospital Colorado
- Alexandria Wiersma, MD, Children’s Hospital Colorado
Topics
- The Standards for Quality Improvement Reporting Excellence (SQUIRE) overview and writing an effective introduction
- Elements of writing a great paper
- Writing an Effective Methods Section
- Writing an Effective Results
- Editing and Copy Editing
- Writing an Effective Discussion
- Hitting submit
- Writing an Effective Abstract
- Responding to reviewers
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Who should apply
This opportunity is open to participants from a PPN spoke or hub site. See the full list of sites here. Successful applicants will have a completed QI project with data demonstrating change.
Registration
Spring 2026 application has closed. This page will be updated with information for the Fall 2026 application cycle in May 2026.