UW Graduate Courses

• Quality of Health Care (PH 703) - This course combines clinical and systems engineering perspectives, focusing on strategies to address quality and safety challenges in healthcare organizations. It is required for the Certificate in Patient Safety and is an elective for the Certificate in Type 2 Translational Research.
  
  
• Introduction to Type 2 Translational Research (PH 650) - Type 2 Translational Research solves problems in translating findings from efficacy studies into improvements in clinical practice and community health programs. To learn more, check out the annotated bibliography on Type 2 Translational Research compiled by Dr. Maureen Smith. This course is required for the Certificate in Type 2 Translational Research. For more information, email Maureen Smith.

Certificate Programs
The University of Wisconsin offers several certificate programs related to improvement in the healthcare system. 

• Certificate in Patient Safety -The Systems Engineering Initiative for Patient Safety (SEIPS) has developed a certificate in patient safety that is open to all graduate students enrolled at UW-Madison.  Students may choose to obtain their 1-semester practicum experience working with HIP.
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• Certificate in Type 2 Translational Research - The Certificate in Type 2 Translational Research addresses a well documented gap in what should be a continuum between basic health and medical research discoveries and the application of those discoveries in clinical and public health practice. To bridge this gap, new discoveries must move beyond efficacy studies (type I translational research) to research that tests effectiveness in real world settings.
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Short Courses
A variety of short courses are available to enhance skills in practice improvement.

• Human Factors Engineering and Patient Safety - The Systems Engineering Initiative for Patient Safety (SEIPS) conducts a two-part course on human factors engineering and patient safety.
  
  
• Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) - IHI offers a wide variety of conferences and training sessions that prepare individuals to improve the quality of healthcare.

Continuing Professional Development

• Office of Continuing Professional Development (OCPD) – The OCPD at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health offers a full range of educational experiences to enhance the practitioner's knowledge base and expand professional skills.
  

Online Courses
There are numerous online courses available to learn basic strategies to improve the healthcare system.

• Healthcare Improvement Skills Center - This web site includes a diverse collection of healthcare improvement learning resources, featuring six case- based, highly interactive learning modules.
  
  
• IHI-Open School - These web-based learning courses rely on an online methodology that utilizes drill and practice, simulations, questioning, answering and reading to give the learner a robust learning opportunity.
  
  
• ESourceResearch - This interactive, online course covers research methods and tools for researchers engaging in behavioral and social sciences research on health-related topics.