Content, progress and pedagogy of the module

Learning objectives

Knowledge

• Understand basic concepts and terminology in quality improvement, quality assurance and patient safety
• Explain the methods and theories used within quality and safety in healthcare
• Demonstrate knowledge of relevant law and regulations regarding quality and safety issues in healthcare
• Describe prerequisites for measuring quality and safety in healthcare
• Understand the relationship between quality and economics
• Demonstrate knowledge of medical, clinical and administrative databases
• Describe quality problems in healthcare
• Understand patients’ rights and methods for patient involvement

Skills

• Identify and analyse quality problems in healthcare
• Conduct quality assurance procedures in GCP, GLP, GMP and GDP
• Suggest solutions for quality and safety issues in healthcare

Competences

• Contribute to development and evaluation of clinical quality improvement projects
• Evaluate data safety (e.g. GDPR) in research and practice

Type of instruction

• Teaching varies between lectures, workshops, (group) exercises and individual study

Exam

Exams

Additional information

Please consult the Moodle page for your semester and contact the semester coordinator if you have academic questions, or the study secretary if you have administrative questions.

All other enquiries may be directed to Helene Nørgaard, secretary of the Study Board.