OPTIMIZING VALUE, QUALITY AND SAFETY IN HEALTHCARE
An in-depth understanding of the key concepts of value, quality and safety is critical to the education of future physicians. The majority of adverse events experienced by hospitalized patients occur in surgery. Surgery offers the ideal setting to explore these three components critical to improving the US healthcare system. Examine factors that influence the care we provide and critically consider the value of this care. Observe efforts to improve value in surgery focusing on quality, safety and appropriate utilization of critical resources and consider areas for improvement. Follow patients in all processes of care from clinic, to the operating room, through their postoperative course, to discharge, and consider how important measures to secure safety and quality are encountered and impact care in the clinical arena. Consider price and allocation of scarce resources. Gather information for their analysis of the patient experience.
Prerequisites & course information
Requisites: MED SC-M 810 , 811 , 812 , and 813 Course Designation: Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework requirement Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Spring 2026 Learning Outcomes: 1. Demonstrate understanding of system efforts to promote high value healthcare. Audience: Graduate 2. Integrate understanding of complex care for individuals with policy or institutional level strategies to improve health Audience: Graduate 3. Identify processes or attitudes that may (or may not) provide for the fair and just distribution of healthcare resources. Audience: Graduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Demonstrate understanding of system efforts to promote high value healthcare. Audience: Graduate 2. Integrate understanding of complex care for individuals with policy or institutional level strategies to improve health Audience: Graduate 3. Identify processes or attitudes that may (or may not) provide for the fair and just distribution of healthcare resources. Audience: Graduate
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026-2027