8th to 19th January 2024, Heidelberg, Deutschland.
- Tuition Fees: General Admission €1,500, tropEd €1,000
- 2-week course equals 90 hours of student investment time (35 hours of lectures, 30 hours of facilitated group work and 25 hours self-directed learning), TropEd students can earn 3 ECTS points
- Open to: tropEd students, public health professionals and other health professionals
ENTRY REQUIREMENTS
This Short Course is held in English. Course participants should have excellent command/high level of proficiency in reading, writing and speaking English.
CONTENT OVERVIEW
This course focuses on practical tools and methods to improve healthcare services in low- and middle-inco-me countries. It introduces participants to major steps and trends in healthcare quality and patient safety movements with a focus on challenges to improving quality in resource-limited settings. Course participants learn how to adapt quality impro-vement tools, methods, and techniques to national and local settings with a special emphasis on mana-ging and motivating people and designing sustainable health improvement programmes. A two-day skills development workshop strengthens individual and team skills in evaluating the quality of health care services.
COURSE TOPICS
- Prioritizing quality improvement: rationale, methods and examples
- Overview of quality and safety terminology and concepts
- Harmonizing quality improvement with local and international health system strengthening initiatives
- Developing and implementing standards, guidelines and indicators in a healthcare service
- Designing and implementing quality assessments using audit, accreditation and supervision
- Personal skills development for managing teams in improving quality
- Designing and managing quality improvement teams including quality circles, clinical guideline working groups, clinical audit, and quality improvement committees
- Quality improvement tools such as checklists, affinity analysis, flow chart, mind mapping, fish-bone diagram, force-field analysis, prioritisation matrix, Gantt chart, control chart, and radar chart
- Case studies of quality improvement in low and middle-income countries
COURSE FEE
- General Admittance: € 1.500.-
- tropEd students: € 1.000.-
Included in the course fee is a non-refundable registration fee of € 200.-
Please register as soon as possible as the number of participants is limited.
Unfortunately, no Scholarships are available.
If the participant withdraws from the course
- less than 6 weeks prior: 25 % of the course fee will be charged.
- less than 4 weeks prior: 50 % of the course fee will be charged.
- less than 2 weeks prior: the whole course fee will be charged.
The tuition fee does not include accommodation, insurance or other personal living costs during the stay.
Location: For more information and detailed program visit the website.
Date: 8th to 19th January 2024
Heidelberg Institute of Global Health (HIGH)
Published in GI-Mail 10/2023 (English edition).
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