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Patient Safety and Healthcare Quality (MSc): an advanced postgraduate program for personnel with positions of responsibility in the health care sector

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GMS Z Med Ausbild 2011;28(2):Doc20

doi: 10.3205/zma000732, urn:nbn:de:0183-zma0007326

This is the English version of the article.
The German version can be found at: http://www.egms.de/de/journals/zma/2011-28/zma000732.shtml

Received: March 29, 2011
Revised: March 29, 2011
Accepted: March 29, 2011
Published: May 16, 2011

© 2011 Bookhagen.
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Professionals in health care increasingly meet complex situations, especially regarding topics such as safety, quality, leading- and managing competencies as well as medical law and ethical framework requirements.

Installed by the Institute for Ethics and Law in Medicine, the Medical University Vienna and the Postgraduate Center at the University of Vienna, the masters program responds to the demand of quality management and patient safety addressing the complexities of the healthcare system. The course does not only apply to physicians but all healthcare professionals and individuals operating in the health care sector. It is the first program of its kind in the German speaking countries and runs fort he second time.

Degree: MSc – Master of Science in Quality and Safety in Healthcare (certificated by the University of Vienna and the Medical University of Vienna)

Language: German

Duration: 4 Semester (24 months), 90 ECTS

Schedule: part-time attendance, classes are scheduled once a month Thursday –Saturday

Location: Campus Altes AKH, Vienna, Austria

Tuition Fee: € 13.800,– (partial payment is available on request)

Program Start: October 2011

Application Deadline: 15.June 2011

Job description: Risk- and Qualitymanager in the health care sector

The program empowers the absolvents to positions of responsibility in all fields of the health care sector (in stationary, ambulatory and residential brands), e.g. administration of risk- and qualitymanagement, controllership of institutions and divisions.

For additional information, please contact Britta Bookhagen britta.bookhagen@univie.ac.at or visit our website at http://www.postgraduatecenter.at/patientensicherheit/

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