Graduate Certificate in Patient Safety and Healthcare Quality
Date duration
Application Date
1 Apr 2024 to 31 May 2024
Programme Period
12 Aug 2024 to 25 Apr 2025
Delivery mode
Program Description
A highly reliable healthcare system ensures care that is consistently of high quality and safety. In ensuring high reliability, the emphasis on patient safety and healthcare quality is critical. There is a rapidly emerging demand for patient safety and healthcare quality skill sets in healthcare nationally, regionally and globally.
Though our programs, you can build healthcare leadership capability and capacity for high reliability systems and strong organizational culture for patient safety. This can help you to establish network of patient safety and healthcare quality professionals to foster sharing, engagement and collaboration.
The Graduate Certificate in Patient Safety and Healthcare Quality consists of 4 courses for a total of 16 academic units. You can also take some courses as a standalone.
Do contact us at lifelonglearning@duke-nus.edu.sg for any enquiries.
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GMS5701
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Quality and Improvement Science
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GMS5702
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Patient Experience & Engagement
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GMS5703
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Clinical Governance and Risk Management
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GMS5704
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Patient Safety Science & Leadership for High Reliability in Healthcare
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Core Courses
GMS5701
Quality and Improvement Science
Students will be introduced to a framework for managing quality in healthcare, and a structured approach to achieving significant improvement in systems performance in healthcare quality. Essential concepts and techniques in value-driven care will also be introduced. Students will learn to integrate evidence-based practice with data-driven improvement to drive improvement in both clinical quality outcomes and cost of healthcare for patients. There will be assignments including a quality improvement project writeup.
GMS5702
Patient Experience & Engagement
This course introduces health care professionals to the principles of patients for patient safety. Students will be introduced to concepts in culture of ownership in engaging patients for patient safety, patient advocacy and engagement, the advocacy roles and scope of involvement in healthcare improvement and patient safety. There will be assignments including a patient advocacy/engagement or inter-professional partnerships for patient safety project writeup.
GMS5703
Clinical Governance and Risk Management
This course introduces health care professionals to the principles of patients for patient safety. Students will be introduced to concepts in culture of ownership in engaging patients for patient safety, patient advocacy and engagement, the advocacy roles and scope of involvement in healthcare improvement and patient safety. There will be assignments including a patient advocacy/engagement or inter-professional partnerships for patient safety project writeup.
GMS5704
Patient Safety Science & Leadership for High Reliability in Healthcare
This is for local and institutional patient-safety (PS) leaders, which blends safety science and psychology in high-reliability systems and focuses on applicability, feasibility and use of evidence to enhance patient-care. It explains PS and quality ecosystem and relationship with its constituent cultures. Students learn about stakeholder’s engagement, how to formulate strategies in driving shared-commitment in building PS culture and achieving goals of PS and healthcare improvement.. Students examine role of informatics in healthcare improvement and adopt value-driven approach to optimise patient-care cost.
Course Fees
Each individual course costs $5,400.00 subject to prevailing GST.
Note
- Student Service Fee (SSF): Students are required to pay an additional SGD25.70 (inclusive of GST) per semester. In the event that students do not take any courses that semester, they would not have to pay this fee.
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Please note that the Tuition Fee and Student Services Fee (SSF) are non-refundable and non-transferable.
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All requests for withdrawal must be received 6 weeks before the start of the course. Late withdrawals will be subjected to payment of the FULL course fees. Any access to learning materials (online preparatory materials and course materials) will be considered as participation and no refunds will be allowed.
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