Health Quality & Patient Safety
Courses
The Health Quality & Patient Safety (HQPS) track focuses on the knowledge, skills and methods required for improving healthcare delivery systems in regard to quality and safety.
Admissions Update as of 6/21/23: Note that HQPS will not admit new students for the 2024-2025 cohort.
The topics covered include:
- Healthcare quality context and measurement
- Changing systems of care delivery
- Healthcare disparities
- Accountability and public policy
- Safety interventions and practices
- Health information technology
- Simulation and the science of teamwork
- Human factors
- Risk assessment methods
- Leadership and governance
Required Courses
- HSIP 400 Interdisciplinary Health Sciences Doctoral Colloquium
- HQS 401 Introduction to Healthcare Quality
- HQS 402 Introduction to Patient Safety
- HQS 420 Introduction to Health Management
- HQS 440 Fundamental Methods in Healthcare Quality and Patient Safety
- HQS 501 Advanced Healthcare Quality
- HQS 502 Advanced Patient Safety
- HQS 510 The Business of Quality and Safety Improvement
- HSIP 401 Introduction to Health Measurement Science
- PUB_HLTH 445 Writing and Peer Reviewing for Publication
- BIOSTAT 302 Introduction to Biostatistics**
- BIOSTAT 402 Intermediate Biostatistics**
Choose One Required Research Design Course
- BIOSTAT 301 Introduction to Epidemiology
- HSR 425 Introduction to Quantitative Methods in HSOR
Electives
Choose two or more classes from the following options.
- HSR 433 Health Economics and Healthcare Financing
- HSR 456 Applied Qualitative Methods and Analysis for Health Researchers
- HSR 470 Federal Policy Making and Health Care Reform
- MGMT 444 Health Economics
- MGMT 945 Healthcare Strategy
- MHB 401 Foundations of Bioethics
- MHB 402 Medicine and Law
- MHB 403 The History of Medicine
- MORS 430 Leadership in Organizations
- MORS 452 Leading the Strategic Change Process
- MORS 460 Leading and Managing Teams
- PUB_HLTH 301 Behavior, Society, and Health
- PUB_HLTH 415 Disease Prevention and Health Promotion
- PUB_HLTH 431 Decision Analysis and Models of Decision Making
- PUB_HLTH 438 Survey Design and Methodology
- PUB_HLTH 439 Qualitative Research Methods
- PUB_HLTH 444 Medical Cost Effectiveness
- PUB_HLTH 449 Public Health Policy