Specialization in Health Quality Management - Virtual Modality

○ Applies managerial and leadership skills to propose, develop, and evaluate policies aimed at measuring and improving quality management systems in healthcare. Manages quality management programs and systems in healthcare institutions.

○ Evaluates strategies for selecting and integrating information systems and technology to support decision-making and workflow within and outside healthcare institutions.

○ Interacts with interdisciplinary work teams. Assumes leadership roles in organizations to ensure patient safety. Supports organizational decision-making based on the evaluation of documented information.

○ Evaluates the quality of services by verifying the use of quality improvement tools in healthcare services. Executes auditing, licensing, and accreditation processes in healthcare.

General Information

Applicant Profile

Professional in health sciences, administrative sciences, social and human sciences, or related areas, linked to the health sector, with an interest in complementing their disciplinary and professional knowledge with content specific to health quality management.

Occupational Profile

Graduates of the specialization in Health Quality Management will be able to perform as:

○ Manager of health sector institutions and/or integrated quality management systems.

○ Quality consultant for health sector institutions.

○ Researcher in the area of quality or quality management systems.

○ Auditor of administrative and technical-scientific processes in healthcare.

○ From this reference, the field of action for the specialist in Health Quality Management is primarily circumscribed to health service provider institutions, benefit plan administrative companies, public and private health service provider institutions, in their quality or auditing departments, and local and departmental health directorates.

○ Secondarily, higher education institutions that offer programs related to health quality emerge as a field of action.

Why study with us?

○ The training provided to the specialization student allows graduates to access management and administrative positions in health sector institutions and/or integrated quality management systems, consulting, and the educational sector.

○ High level of training of the faculty linked to the Specialization programs, with recognized professional experience in the organizational and business field, with postgraduate training in the disciplinary area.

○ The training process is developed in cycles, which allows the student to take the scheduled courses gradually, avoiding activity overload.

○ The student has the possibility to access our virtual platform and all its content 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

○ Synchronous support is provided through scheduled virtual meetings, which allow the student to clarify doubts about their training process.

○ Since the program is developed virtually, it allows the student to organize their time to fulfill work and academic obligations.

○ There are five (5) periods offered per year, which allows students who have suspended their studies for personal, work, and family reasons to resume them without having to wait a full semester.

Program Objective

○ To foster knowledge of the organizational environment in which health services are developed, as an indispensable basis for obtaining the necessary information for the development of programs aimed at ensuring quality in the provision of health services.

○ To provide the student with the methodological and conceptual information necessary for understanding the references that enable the design, implementation, and control of a quality management system, within the framework of the general social security system in health.

○ To facilitate the conceptual references of the administrative management component, necessary support for the direction of existing quality programs or for the implementation of a new quality assurance system.

○ To provide the student with concepts related to quality in healthcare, as well as related approaches and techniques, that allow for the implementation of sustainable quality control programs in the health system.

○ To provide the student with knowledge related to the legal framework that regulates the provision of health services in the country regarding social security in health and the mandatory health quality assurance system.

Curriculum

Trimester 1