Overview
Healthcare Quality and Patient Safety program at Northwestern University highlights
- Two-year, part-time degree program
- Designed for clinical and non-clinical healthcare professionals who wish to partake in a mentored capstone practicum to design and implement a quality or safety intervention
- Combined MD/MS option available for medical students who wish to acquire knowledge and skills to become quality and safety clinical leaders
Programme Structure
Courses include:
- Healthcare Quality
- Patient Safety
- to U.S. Health System
- Fundamental Methods for Healthcare Quality and Patient Safety
- Advanced Healthcare Quality
- Advanced Patient Safety
Key information
Duration
- Part-time
- 24 months
- Flexible
Start dates & application deadlines
- Starting
- Apply before
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Language
Credits
Delivered
Disciplines
Public Health Health Administration Health Sciences View 1828 other Masters in Health Sciences in United StatesAcademic requirements
English requirements
Other requirements
General requirements
- CollegeNET Application
- Two letters of recommendation
- Your most recent graduate entrance exam test score (GRE, GMAT, MCAT, LSAT or MAT; contact us to determine applicability of other test scores); this requirement may be waived for candidates with a graduate degree
- One set of transcripts from each postsecondary institution attended (including all courses taken, grades received and, if applicable, degree earned)
- CV or resume
- Statement of purpose
- Writing sample (provide a description of one key issue in healthcare quality or patient safety and discuss possible solutions; responses should be no more than 750 words)
Tuition Fee
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International
103230 USD/yearTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 6882 USD per credit during 24 months. -
National
103230 USD/yearTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 6882 USD per credit during 24 months.
- $6,882 per credit.
Living costs for Evanston
The living costs include the total expenses per month, covering accommodation, public transportation, utilities (electricity, internet), books and groceries.
Funding
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