Fellowships

	Consumer Health Info
	Patient Safety Fellowship
	Jonas Salk Fellowship
	Alumni

Patient Safety Fellowship

The Patient Safety Fellowship began in 2004 with the goal of exposing students to various "centers of excellence" in Pittsburgh's healthcare network and retaining qualified leaders in health care. At the core of the Fellowship is Perfecting Patient Care^SM (PPC), the Pittsburgh Regional Health Initiative's healthcare process improvement methodology based upon Lean concepts, principles and tools. Through PPC, the Fellows will be able to:

• Study systemic problems through observations at the point of patient care
• Refine interdisciplinary team-based approaches to addressing observed problems
• Redesign work based on a systems perspective
• Analyze improvement opportunities for educational value

Fellows participate over an eight-week period, attending one four-hour session per week in the months of June and July.

The Patient Safety Fellowship provides a unique forum for graduate students in health-related disciplines to learn from leading experts from local healthcare institutions who are actively engaged in improving patient safety.  The Fellowship program strives to grow the leaders of tomorrow - leaders who will be team players responsive to rapid change and discovery; leaders who will apply an interdisciplinary team approach to practicing and continually improving health care and patient safety.

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
• Newly designed web-based quality improvement tool, Tomorrow's HealthCare^TM, to compliment the Fellows' learning

Eligibility:
You must be a 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, April 8, 2011
• Selected fellows will be notified by Friday, April 22, 2011
• Fellowship runs from June to July

Application
Download our Patient Safety application.

For more information on the application process, please call Michelle Anderson at 412-594-2581 or e-mail anderson@jhf.org.