1.2 Development of the Masters of Science in Health Quality Program (MSc HQ):
Historically healthcare system have a tendency to maintain the standards of quality care with in itself. However the healthcare professionals always felt a gap between theories and the practicing the quality, risk and safety in the healthcare. In 2010, the faculty members of the Queen’s University, considered to create a novice program which could lead the professionals affiliated with the healthcare to implement the theories of quality, risk and safety in the healthcare. The team of the MSc HQ program also considered not to confine the health quality, risk and safety to the medical professionals, it was targeted that the students and professionals from the other …show more content…
To make this program multidisciplinary, the MSc HQ program team comprised of the faculty from the healthcare, engineering, law and education, business and policy studies, which make it a unique program at the Queen’s University. A professional body comprise of Canadian and international experts in quality, risk and safety was formed to direct the process of program and course development. Centre of teaching and learning contributed by monitoring the process of course development and providing feedback on evaluations and the activities in the program.
After hard work of two years the ‘Masters of Science Health Quality (MSc HQ)’ commenced with a class of twenty students in August 2012, at Queen’s University, Kingston with an aim to shrink the gap between theory and practice with regards to the quality, risk and safety in the healthcare. The program was designed part time to accommodate the need of students who simultaneously wants to further their education and their careers. The MSc HQ program has been offered through synchronous and asynchronous delivery via distance learning and two face to face week long sessions. (Kim
Historically healthcare system have a tendency to maintain the standards of quality care with in itself. However the healthcare professionals always felt a gap between theories and the practicing the quality, risk and safety in the healthcare. In 2010, the faculty members of the Queen’s University, considered to create a novice program which could lead the professionals affiliated with the healthcare to implement the theories of quality, risk and safety in the healthcare. The team of the MSc HQ program also considered not to confine the health quality, risk and safety to the medical professionals, it was targeted that the students and professionals from the other …show more content…
To make this program multidisciplinary, the MSc HQ program team comprised of the faculty from the healthcare, engineering, law and education, business and policy studies, which make it a unique program at the Queen’s University. A professional body comprise of Canadian and international experts in quality, risk and safety was formed to direct the process of program and course development. Centre of teaching and learning contributed by monitoring the process of course development and providing feedback on evaluations and the activities in the program.
After hard work of two years the ‘Masters of Science Health Quality (MSc HQ)’ commenced with a class of twenty students in August 2012, at Queen’s University, Kingston with an aim to shrink the gap between theory and practice with regards to the quality, risk and safety in the healthcare. The program was designed part time to accommodate the need of students who simultaneously wants to further their education and their careers. The MSc HQ program has been offered through synchronous and asynchronous delivery via distance learning and two face to face week long sessions. (Kim