The International Emergency Department Leadership Institute (IEDLI) provides Emergency Department leaders with the skills and knowledge they need to operate successful emergency departments around the world.

IEDLI is sponsored by the Department of Emergency Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, a Harvard Medical School teaching hospital.

Why Attend IEDLI?

Leading an Emergency Department presents challenges to even the most experienced healthcare professionals. At IEDLI, you will undergo leadership training for real-world scenarios in Emergency Medicine.

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Gain Essential Skills

Participants develop critical leadership skills through interactive workshops, mentoring, and seminars.

Learn from Expert Faculty

IEDLI faculty come from within the Harvard system and around the world, with extensive experience in ED leadership, development, and education.

Join an International Network

IEDLI brings together healthcare professionals from around the world, with networking events included.

Improve Your ED

You will return from IEDLI with the tools to improve your Emergency Department.

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Topics

IEDLI explores critical topics that present challenges in Emergency Departments, with topics updated each year to cover the current most pressing issues.

  • Overcrowding
  • Improving Efficiency
  • Controlling Costs
  • Administrative Structure
  • Risk Management
  • Staffing
  • Quality of Care
  • Triage
  • And more!

Who Should Attend IEDLI?

IEDLI is designed for ED physicians, nurses, and hospital administrators. Both current leaders and emerging leaders are encouraged to attend.

The courses and content are created for an international audience, with English as the common language.

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Courses

IEDLI offers four interactive courses taught by Harvard Medical School faculty and other international experts with workshops, seminars, group work, and personal mentoring.

Leadership Essentials Course

Develop solutions to leadership challenges facing ED leaders today.

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CEDE Certification Course

Engage in hands-on case study presentations on current challenges in ED leadership.

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Continuing Executive Education Course

Master solutions on emerging challenges and opportunities in ED leadership.

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Emergency Department Design Course

Combine design and process to create high performing emergency departments.

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 IEDLI courses are amongst the best CME courses that I have attended, with friendly, knowledgeable, and supportive IEDLI faculty.

IEDLI Attendee on the Certified Emergency Department Executive Course

It was great to make new contacts for those difficult times when an additional opinion can be sought from other ED leaders who are experiencing similar issues despite different healthcare systems.

IEDLI Attendee on the Emergency Department Design Course

I am currently trying to engage an executive team on project. This course created ideas on how to approach this and make progress.

IEDLI Attendee on the Certified Emergency Department Executive Course

NEVER A MOMENT OF DULLNESS. The entire format is interactive and innovative; even the lectures are kept interactive. The workshops are its biggest upside.

IEDLI Attendee on the Leadership Essentials Course

IEDLI Leadership Essentials is outstanding! It provides us with a whole toolbox on how to work with ourselves, our team and change within the ED.

IEDLI Attendee on the Leadership Essentials Course

This course has raised the bar for all other CME. Very well-organized. I never felt for a minute that my time was being wasted.

IEDLI Attendee on the Certified Emergency Department Executive Course

The most eye-opening thing is the interactions with other participants, to find out that everyone struggles with the same issues. After this course, I feel much more confident about my leadership skills.

IEDLI Attendee on the Leadership Essentials Course

As I am in the middle of designing a new department, I learned so many tools that I will implement and offer to my leadership.

IEDLI Attendee on the Emergency Department Design Course

This course gave me a number of tools that will have immediate benefit on my work (feedback, meetings, change leadership, data/scheduling) as well as improved ways to think about things we already do (clinical pathways, triage, etc.).

IEDLI Attendee on the Leadership Essentials Course

It made me think of things that I haven’t considered to be important before. The course has given me tools to start working on improving my ED. It has also given me a lot of inspiration.

IEDLI Attendee on the Leadership Essentials Course