With this professional master’s degree you will incorporate the most advanced and current procedures for the management of Quality and Patient Safety”

Nowadays there is a broad consensus on the quality criteria of health services: efficiency, safety, people-centered, timely, equitable, integrated and efficient. Implementing and applying them on a daily basis contributes to the patient's own safety and satisfaction with the care received.

Given their relevance, it is necessary that physicians are aware of the latest methodologies, technological tools and elements that are incorporated in the different hospital centers in order to carry out a continuous improvement in health care. For this reason, TECH has designed this professional master’s degree in Quality and Patient Safety that provides a complete update of knowledge in this field through a syllabus developed by a teaching team with outstanding experience in the sector.

It is a program that provides the latest developments in comprehensive care through methodologies that raise the humanization of health, incorporates the ethics of care and enhances research. Therefore, this academic itinerary will allow to deepen in the incorporation of Big Data and Machine Learning in clinical organizations and the predictive models used to increase safety, the most frequent errors and adverse events in clinical care. 

Additionally, in this 12-month itinerary, the graduate will deepen with the most innovative didactic material in clinical risk management, pediatric patient safety, drug safety and advances in patient safety in surgical and pediatric block. 

Consequently, the professional is facing an excellent opportunity to get an update through a flexible university program adapted to the real needs of physicians. Students only need an electronic device with an Internet connection to view the content of this program at any time of the day. An ideal opportunity to study a quality program at the academic forefront.

You are looking at a flexible program compatible with your most demanding daily responsibilities”

This professional master’s degree in Quality and Patient Safety contains the most complete and up-to-date scientific program on the market. The most important features include:

• The development of case studies presented by health care experts in Quality and Patient Safety
• The graphic, schematic, and practical contents with which they are created, provide scientific and practical information on the disciplines that are essential for professional practice
• The practical exercises where the self-evaluation process can be carried out to improve learning
• Its special emphasis on innovative methodologies 
• Theoretical lessons, questions to the expert, debate forums on controversial topics, and individual reflection assignments
• Content that is accessible from any fixed or portable device with an Internet connection

You have video summaries of each topic and multimedia pills that will help you in this process of updating your knowledge in Quality and Patient Safety”

The program includes in its teaching staff professionals of the field who pour into this training the experience of their work, in addition to recognized specialists from reference societies and prestigious universities. 

Its multimedia content, developed with the latest educational technology, will allow the professional a situated and contextual learning, that is, a simulated environment that will provide an immersive training programmed to train in real situations. 

The design of this program focuses on Problem-Based Learning, in which the professional will have to try to solve the different professional practice situations that will arise throughout the academic course. This will be done with the help of an innovative system of interactive videos made by renowned experts.

You will be aware of the use of Big Data and Machine Learning for the definition of predictive models in Patient Safety"

This program will take you deeper into the challenge of humanization as a determinant element of the quality of care"

The purpose of this professional master’s degree is to ensure that the graduate obtains an exhaustive update of their knowledge of Quality and Patient Safety during 12 months. An update that will allow students to be aware of the most recent processes used in care management, the approach to risk situations, the principles of continuous improvement implemented or the incorporation of bioethical principles in clinical care. A goal that will be much easier to achieve thanks to the case studies and the numerous didactic materials that make up this program.

Get an effective update on the evaluation of current health technologies and future perspectives”

General Objectives

• Analyze the importance of humanization in health care, the need for respect for life, human dignity and a comprehensive understanding of the person made vulnerable by illness
• Identify the situations and risk factors in the pediatric patient
• Determine the main preventive measures in place in pediatric patient safety
• Substantiate the importance and guidelines of surgery safety in the public health field by defining a minimum set of measures
• Promote safe working environments for the patient and for professionals
• Promote research, innovation and training in patient safety
• Analyze the management of adverse events and improvement plans to avoid them
• Deepen the concepts, methods and strategies for improving patient safety in health care institutions
• Substantiate the best evidence on safety in biobanks and transfusion safety technologies
• Analyze patient safety strategies approached from different health care areas

Specific Objectives

Module 1. Health Care Quality Management Systems in Health Care Institutions 

• Analyze the different models and systems of quality management
• Update specialized knowledge on the management by care processes
• Propose techniques and tools for quality improvement
• Develop the tools to carry out a continuous quality improvement cycle
• Determine the different models of quality certification in health care institutions
• Establish keys to excellence in health care institutions
• Identify the essential aspects for the development of effective leadership in health care professional teams

Module 2. Clinical Risk Management 

• Provide a comprehensive view of all the elements that can affect patient safety
• Delve into the different phases that make up clinical risk management
• Establish the actions aimed at preventing the occurrence of adverse events by having the necessary knowledge to minimize them
• Identify prevention and control measures to reduce health care-associated infections
• Propose actions aimed at the participation of users in patient safety
• Develop corrective measures aimed at minimizing clinical risk
• Analyze the concept of satisfaction and perceived quality. Identify the instruments to know the users' opinion

Module 3. Quality of Care and Ethics in Health Care Institutions 

• Develop the four principles of bioethics
• Update knowledge on the application of the deliberative method to clinical decisions
• Examine the application of bioethics in end-of-life health care decisions
• Apply ethics in medical research
• Deepen the key points of respect for the patient
• Analyze ethical actions in conflicting situations
• Value the figure of palliative care
• Establish the importance of ethical values in organ donation

Module 4. Health Technology Assessment

• Evaluate health technologies at the international level. Current Situation and Future Prospects
• Evaluate health technologies, their impact and associated costs
• Deepen the role of the Electronic Health Record in Patient Safety and Quality of Care
• Incorporate Big Data and Artificial Intelligence
• Deepen the use of the electronic health record for patient safety and natural language Processing to extract knowledge for patient safety 

Module 5. Safety of Medicines and Health Care Products. Pharmacy and Hematology 

• Determine adverse effects in high-risk drugs and strategies for error prevention
• Update knowledge on monitoring by pharmacokinetics
• Analyze the Pharmacovigilance System
• Conduct a review of medical device errors: adverse incidents, alerts and notifications
• Examine robotic systems for drug packaging and dispensing and unit dosing systems, repackaging and unit dose manufacturing, automated and conventional systems
• Indicate the safety of biobanks and transfusion safety
• Develop safety aspects related to medication 

Module 6. Errors in Health Care and Adverse Events

• Provide a rationale for the different models and systems of adverse event management
• Update knowledge about patient safety
• Propose techniques and tools for the improvement of patient safety
• Develop the tools to carry out a safety syllabus
• Analyze the different models of clinical practice guidelines and the evaluation of adherence to them
• Delve into the keys to patient safety in the health care environment 

Module 7. Organizational Safety

• Identify safety risks in health information management
• Analyze the various organizational structures to promote patient safety
• Implement new, more attractive and modern safety training methodologies
• Assess the impact of safety in terms of efficiency
• Detect the key aspects to be monitored for safe control of facilities
• Promote knowledge of environmental safety in the health care environment
• Position the patient as a key element in their safety 

Module 8. Patient Safety in the Surgical Block. High Risk Areas

• Update the functional and structural characteristics of the Surgical Block directly related to patient safety
• Analyze the interventions that professionals must carry out in order to guarantee the safety of patients receiving surgical treatment, which are essential to contribute to the reduction of adverse effects related to the same
• Analyze the situations in the surgical health care practice environment that may pose a risk to the patient and the most common hazards
• Examine the different activities, methods and tools for the improvement of surgical safety
• Develop the different programs and strategies as a tool for the improvement of surgical safety, as well as their level of implementation in the surgical area
• Identify the role of health care professionals in the strategies for the improvement of surgical patient safety
• Establish different safety controls that can be carried out in any operating room

Module 9. Safety of the Pediatric Patient 

• Acquire the ability to identify the pediatric patient as vulnerable
• Elaborate risk maps for the detection of the most frequent adverse events in the pediatric age group
• Objectify the risk situations of the neonatal patient and his environment
• Consider the safety of the pediatric patient in clinical research
• Analyze diagnostic processes and functional tests as generators of safety incidents in the child
• Identify safety risk situations in the pediatric critical patient and their environment
• Review the pediatric surgical and anesthetic process as a safe environment
• Know how to detect safety risks in the pediatric patient of special vulnerability: palliative, oncologic and pain management

Module 10. Humanization of Health care 

• Promoting humanization in health care
• Analyze the fundamental axes for humanized care: the patient and their family, the health care personnel and the organizational structure
• Inquire into the humanization of health care for particularly vulnerable patients
• Update knowledge for the elaboration of a Humanization Syllabus
• Examine the value-based management model

You will be updated on the different models of continuous quality improvement applied in health care organizations”