Curriculum

Certification course in Quality Improvement

Fees

INR 5900/-

About this course

To charter a meaningful, prosperous career in the healthcare industry, an individual must be equipped with the skills and knowledge to improve the quality of healthcare. As someone who is tasked with providing hands-on care for patients, healthcare professionals who are also administrators should aim for strong positive impacts on patients' lives.These professionals must have a complete understanding of the issues that frequently arise and prevent quality care.¹
To cater to this very important need of a credible e-learning course in quality improvement, BMJ is launching a three months' certification course in quality improvement.This course is an ideal starting point for healthcare workers who are interested in acquiring knowledge and skills to lead patient safety and quality improvement in their institutions. The course modules emphasise practical application in everyday practice, providing the tools and techniques to ensure successful implementation of improvement methodology. The learning assumes very little prior exposure to improvement methodology, principles and tools.
BMJ is one of the world's leading providers of medical knowledge and education & is known around the world for the quality of content. Like our other credentialed courses, the content for this course is evidence based and peer reviewed.

Assessment criteria

There is a final online assessment in the form of MCQ [Multiple Choice Questions]. For successful completion of the course minimum passing percentage required is 70%.
This course is suitable for the health care professionals who are interested in acquiring knowledge and skills to lead patient safety and quality improvement in their institutions.
Introductory Fee: INR 5900 including 18% GST

To apply for the course, please click here

For more information, please write to us at education.india@bmj.com or you can call us at 91-120-4345733 - 37, +919650052070 (09:30 AM - 05:00 PM, Monday to Friday).

Reference Source

https://onlinehealthsciences.duq.edu/blog/quality-improvement-in-healthcare/

Course Directors

Dr. Kieran Walsh

Clinical Director, BMJ Learning & BMJ Best Practice

Dr Kieran Walsh is Clinical Director at BMJ. He is the clinical lead of the medical education and clinical decision support products at BMJ. He has a vast amount of experience in online medical education, clinical decision support, face to face delivery of medical education, and both summative and formative assessment. He has published over 200 papers in the biomedical literature and has written four books: the first and only book on cost effectiveness in medical education; a dictionary of quotations in medical education; a history of medical education in 100 images; and the Oxford Textbook of Medical Education. He is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland, a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Educators, and Adjunct Associate Professor at Monash University. In the past he has worked as a hospital doctor specialising in General Internal Medicine and Geriatric Medicine.

Course objectives

After completing this course, you should be able to:

1. Understand the key components of a successful and sustainable programme of change.
2. Know about quality improvement and its application for improvement to clinical care.
3. Know the importance of clinical leadership within the healthcare system
4. Understand the key concepts of measurement in QI projects and have a greater practical knowledge of data collection and analysis
5. Define patient safety and know the harm caused by errors and system failure.
6. Recognize the human factors and factors affecting error and human performances.
7. Understand your stakeholders and know why relations are important.
8. Understand the importance of a well designed intervention.
9. Understand the importance of a project management framework for QI projects.
10. Understand a system and its relation to healthcare and the difference between them.