Fellowships

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Patient Safety

The Patient Safety Fellowship began in 2001 with the goal of exposing students to various "centers of excellence" in Pittsburgh's healthcare network and retaining qualified leaders in health care. In 2004, a Patient Safety track was introduced using the Perfecting Patient Care (PPC) System. Through PPC, students learned to:

• Understand systemic problems through observation at the point of patient care
• Refine team-based approaches to solving observed problems
• Test solutions and refine them in real-time
• Redesign work based on results

Today, the Fellowship continues to champion leadership skills through the team-based problem-solving exercises that are the foundation of PPC training.

Fellows participate over an eight-week period for four hours per week and complete supplementary readings. The final session features a case study to test fellows' knowledge and concludes with a graduation ceremony.

The fellowship has a

• Recruitment Advisory Board to assure the best applicant pool for our program
• Curriculum Task Force composed of professionals who teach or use safety science principles to provide improvements to program where needed

Eligibility:
You must be a new, current, or recent graduate student of a health science field, complete an application, and submit a resume, personal statement, and one letter of recommendation.

Timeline

• Applications are due by Friday, March 27, 2009
• Selected fellows will be notified by Friday, April 17, 2009
• Program runs from June to July

Application
Download our Patient Safety application,

For more information on the application process, please call Laura Mahood at 412-586-6718 or e-mail lmahood@prhi.org.

For more information on the fellowship program, please contact us.