Quality Improvement and Learning in Clinical Practice, 4.5 credits

How should health professionals continuously work to improve patient safety and value? Since 2011, undergraduate students at the Faculty of Health Sciences learn about quality improvement in interprofessional tutorial groups. Using a real problem from the clinical practice as scenario, applying problem-based learning PBL , our student form a learning community together with staff from the County Council.

In the course, our ambition is also to promote every student’s entrepreneurship, defined as “ability to see possibilities and create resources to implement these”. This will be achieved through increased awareness of the need that every profession contributes to the quality of health care, which will lead to “better value” for the patient.

The course is given twice a year the first two weeks of the semester (after the Orientation week). Full-time study.

Learning goals

After the course, the student will be able to

Knowledge and understanding

·         describe the complexity in change processes

Competence and skills

·         apply methods and tools of quality improvement work

·         evaluate how different professional competences in cooperation is reflected on the result of quality and safety in health care systems

Judgement and approach

·         assess her professional role in relation to competences of students from other professional programs, hence the student will be able to describe her interprofessional competence

References:

Wenger E. “Communities of Practice: Learning, Meaning, and Identity” 1999, Cambridge University Press

Batalden P. and Davidoff F. “What is quality improvement and how can it transform healthcare?”  2011 BMJ Quality and Safety

Contact information:

Johanna Dahlberg
Director of Studies Interprofessional Learning
Centre for Educational Development and Research
E-mail: johanna.dahlberg@liu.se
Phone: +46 13 286876

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