2007 Sixth Quality Colloquium Announces Patient Safety Certificate Program.CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- The Sixth Quality Colloquium col·lo·qui·um n. pl. col·lo·qui·ums or col·lo·qui·a 1. An informal meeting for the exchange of views. 2. An academic seminar on a broad field of study, usually led by a different lecturer at each meeting. , www.qualitycolloquium.com, August 19 - 22, 2007, on the campus of Harvard University Harvard University, mainly at Cambridge, Mass., including Harvard College, the oldest American college. Harvard College Harvard College, originally for men, was founded in 1636 with a grant from the General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. today announced its Patient Safety Certificate Program. The Quality Colloquium is offering a Patient Safety Certificate Program in the form of an optional course within the conference. The Patient Safety Certificate Program curriculum and requirements are as follows: 1-- Pre-course reading (6 hours) 2-- The Preconference Symposium symposium In ancient Greece, an aristocratic banquet at which men met to discuss philosophical and political issues and recite poetry. It began as a warrior feast. Rooms were designed specifically for the proceedings. on Patient Safety (6 hours) 3-- Selected elements of the Quality Colloquium agenda (attend at least 11 educational hours from among the portions of agenda with asterisk (1) See Asterisk PBX. (2) In programming, the asterisk or "star" symbol (*) means multiplication. For example, 10 * 7 means 10 multiplied by 7. The * is also a key on computer keypads for entering expressions using multiplication. and italics) 4-- Successful completion of a post meeting on-line assessment (1 hour). The purpose of the Patient Safety Certificate Program is to give participants the understanding and tools necessary to conduct state-of-the-art clinical practice improvement projects around key patient safety issues. The course is intended for those interested in organizing comprehensive quality improvement education programs for health care delivery systems, conducting practice assessment, improvement, and cost reduction projects, and championing quality efforts from a clinical foundation. The course is designed for patient safety officers, front line practitioners, risk managers, administrators, researchers, and medical educators. Those who successfully complete the course requirements (steps 1 through 4 above), including pre-course readings and an online post conference test (with a score of seventy percent (70% or more) will receive a certificate of completion of the Quality Colloquium Patient Safety Certificate Program. Certificate program faculty include: -- Paul Barach, MD, MPH, Maj (ret.), Associate Professor, University of South Florida • • [ , Former Associate Dean for Patient Safety, and Director Center for Patient Safety, University of Miami This article is about the university in Coral Gables, Florida. For the university in Oxford, Ohio, see Miami University. The University of Miami (also known as Miami of Florida,[2] UM,[3] or just The U , Tampa, FL -- Julie K. Johnson, MSPH MSPH Mailman School of Public Health (Columbia Universty, New York City) MSPH Master of Science in Public Health MSPH Mrs. Potato Head (toy) , PhD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of Chicago, Director of Research, American Board of Specialties, Chicago, IL -- Davis Balestracci, MS, Harmony Consulting, LLC (Logical Link Control) See "LANs" under data link protocol. LLC - Logical Link Control , Portland, ME FOR FURTHER INFORMATION: For further information about the Quality Colloquium's Patient Safety Certificate Program, go to www.qualitycolloquium.com, 305-345-8848 or email PBarach@earthlink.net. |
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