Field Project Qlty Improvement

HCM 758.2 Subject & Catalog Number

Description

This course will provide physician executives with pragmatic, applied, real-world insights into quality improvement (QI) in healthcare organizations, based on the application of proven strategic and tactical frameworks, methodologies and tools to their own quality-related field projects, performed during the 2nd academic year of the MHCM program. Throughout their efforts, from project conception, design and planning, to measurement, implementation, analysis and follow-up actions, the students are mentored and guided (individually and in small groups) by expert course faculty. The course follows and closely complements the HCM 711 (Quality Improvement and Quantitative Methods in Quality Management) summer/fall course, which provides the conceptual and methodological bases, analytic tools and practices for the field project. At the end of this course, students will be better prepared for and substantially proficient in their own roles in quality improvement and management, leading/supporting their organizations' efforts in those areas using sound, science-based and systematic, methodical and analytic approaches and processes.

Course Restricted: HCM students only