MSc Healthcare Risk Management & Quality

Course Features

  • Students who have successfully completed the Graduate Diploma in Healthcare Risk Management and Quality are eligible to apply for this course
  • The course is aimed at those who wish to further specialise and advance their expertise in the field of clinical risk management and patient safety
  • The course comprises a major thesis dealing with a specialist medicolegal/clinical risk management issue

Course Overview

The programme is specifically aimed at those who wish to further specialise and advance their expertise in the field of clinical risk management and patient safety

Candidates who have already completed the Graduate Diploma in Healthcare (Risk Management and Quality), who wish to develop their skills and gain a further qualification.

The course is suitable for:

  • Healthcare providers
  • Doctors
  • Nurses
  • Clinical risk advisors/managers
  • Hospital managers/directors
  • Administrators
  • Healthcare lawyers
  • Professionals working in the fields of patient quality, safety and clinical risk management

Course Description

The MSc Dissertation Module will consist of a major thesis (strictly 15-20,000 words only) dealing with a specialist medico-legal/clinical risk management issue.

It may be suggested that the student substantially expand the pilot project examined at Graduate Diploma level or initiate a completely new thesis subject matter.

Thesis and examination

The thesis will generally comprise two distinct specialised but linked parts:

  1. A medico-legal aspect
  2. Clinical risk management aspect

The thesis must entail and ensure an outcome which results in a practical and professionally oriented thesis, which attempts to serve a health care market requirement and seeks to effect change and policy development. The thesis will entail a total mark out of 100 marks and will be assessed by way of written thesis and its assessment by a viva examination.

Eligibility Criteria

  • International applicants should contact the Academic Programme Director for a full list of entry requirements
  • A list of FAQs for international applicants is available here
 

Important Dates & Information

  • The next intake for MSc Healthcare Risk Management & Quality is September 2021
  • Entry to this programme is highly competitive and is generally open only to graduates of the UCD Graduate Diploma in Healthcare (X257).

How to Apply

  • Applications should be made directly to the Programme Coordinator via the Programme Administrator

 

Danielle Marié
UCD School of Medicine
Forensic & Legal Medicine
UCD Health Sciences Centre
Belfield
Dublin 4
T: + 353 1 716 6647
E: legal.medicine@ucd.ie

This course is of particular value for those professionals who wish to further specialise and advance their expertise in the field of clinical risk management and patient safety, especially within the industry of healthcare and allied professions.

 

Academic Course Co-ordinator:

Programme Administrator:

Asim Sheikh

Forensic and Legal Medicine
UCD School of Medicine
Health Sciences Centre
Belfield
Dublin 4
 

E: asim.sheikh@ucd.ie

Danielle Marié

Forensic and Legal Medicine
UCD School of Medicine
Health Sciences Centre
Belfield
Dublin 4

T: +353 1 716 6647
E: legal.medicine@ucd.ie
 

Key Information:

  • Major Code X258
  • Duration 2 Trimesters
  • Schedule Part-Time
  • Next Intake January, May, September

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