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Courses and Curriculum

The Certificate Program is designed to provide a structured curriculum that presents the emerging content and skills healthcare professionals need to become effective healthcare quality and patient safety thinkers and practitioners.  It includes the four core courses of the Masters Program in Healthcare Quality and Patient Safety, an independent study wherein students design their own quality or safety intervention and 10 monthly webcasts.

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  Core Courses

HQS 401 & 402: Introduction to Healthcare Quality and Patient Safety

These courses will be taught as a summer intensive.  The intensive program begins with a reading period, followed by two weeks of classroom based instruction. They will cover introductory theory and concepts of healthcare quality and patient safety. Students will be provided an overview of the field and will acquire knowledge of key facts and methods for assessment and improvement of healthcare quality and patient safety. These courses will be interactive and will involve direct application of knowledge through activities and assignments.

HQS 502 & 502: Advanced Healthcare Quality and Patient Safety

These courses will be taught as a summer intensive.  The intensive program begins with a reading period, followed by two weeks of classroom based instruction. The purpose of these courses is to immerse students in the more advanced theory and concepts of healthcare quality and patient safety. Students will acquire working knowledge of key priorities in healthcare quality and patient safety, and will develop a level of proficiency in the methods of these fields.  Students will also develop a familiarity with key healthcare quality and patient safety literature. These courses will be interactive and will involve direct application of knowledge through activities and assignments.

 

 











 

 

 

 





 

Course Schedule

 

YEAR 1

YEAR2

SUMMER

FALL

WINTER

SPRING

SUMMER

FALL

WINTER

SPRING

Certificate in Healthcare Quality and Patient Safety

HQS 401
HQS 402

Monthly Webcast

HQS 501
HQS 502

   

Independent Study
(one course to be taken in Fall, Winter or Spring Quarter)