Graduate Minor in Quality, Safety and Risk Management in Healthcare
About the Graduate Minor
The graduate minor in Quality, Safety and Risk Management is designed to prepare health professionals who can lead organizational efforts to improve and monitor quality metrics, improve safety for both patients and staff, and manage risks in a dynamic healthcare environment. Graduates of this program will be prepared to lead teams in a wide variety of quality and risk management initiatives including:
- Aligning the patient safety, risk, and quality functions within the organization
- Ensuring that the patient safety, risk, and quality activities are aligned with the strategic goals of the organization
- Assessing current activities in patient safety, risk, and quality to clarify responsibilities and reduce duplication of effort
- Establishing a structure that ensures that patient care activities are addressed in a coordinated manner involving the patient safety, risk, and quality functions
- Coordinating process changes, data collection, data analysis, monitoring, and evaluation
- Evaluating the roles of patient safety, risk, and quality as the organization's needs change
Admission Requirements
- Current enrollment in a master's program at Drexel University
- GPA of 3.0 and above
- Standardized tests: None
- Transcripts: Not required
- Prerequisites: N/A
- References: Not required
- Personal statement/essay: Personal statement describing interest in minor and relevance to career goals
- Interview/portfolio: Not required
- CV/resume: Required
Program Requirements
| IPS 501 | Legal Compliance: Structure and Implementation | 4.5 |
| IPS 504 | Regulations in Health Care | 4.5 |
| IPS 584 | Analysis of Performance Standards in Healthcare Quality | 3.0 |
| IPS 585 | Science of Safety, Human Factors, and System Thinking | 3.0 |
| Total Credits | 15.0 | |
Additional Information
For more information, contact:
Sam Price Senior Academic Advisor
swp38@drexel.edu
267-359-5738
