Health Care Quality and Safety

The Population Health Ph.D Program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison

 Overview 

Creating and evaluating methodologies to improve quality of care and patient safety within our health care system has become a national priority.  University of Wisconsin-Madison faculty from the Schools of Medicine, Pharmacy, and Engineering work with nationally-recognized centers in the assessment of health care systems and  measurement of their impact on patient safety and quality of care.  The Ph.D. in Population Health offered by the University of Wisconsin-Madison offers multidisciplinary methodological training in the population health sciences and a concentration in quality of care and patient safety through a Certificate in Patient Safety offered in coordination with the Department of Industrial Engineering.

Population Health Core Curriculum 

Introduction to Biostatistics

Introduction to Quantitative Methods (SAS)

Principles of Population Health Science

Introduction to Epidemiology

Introduction to Health Services Research

Epidemiologic Methodology

Quantitative Methods in Population Health I

Quantitative Methods in Population Health II

Doctoral Seminar

Health Care Quality and Safety Area Courses 

Quality of Health Care

Patient Safety Risk Assessment

Medication Use Safety

Measuring Health Outcomes

Assessment of Medical Technologies

Job and Organization Design

Socio-technical Systems

Human Performance and Accident Causation

Human Factors Engineering

Health Care Quality and Safety Area and Related Faculty 

Patricia Brennan, R.N., Ph.D., Medical Informatics

Pascale Carayon, Ph.D., Human Factors and Systems Engineering

Dennis Fryback, Ph.D., Medical Technology Assessment

Bentzi Karsh, Ph.D., Sociotechnical Systems

Mark Linzer, M.D., Physician Worklife and Job Satisfaction

Kathleen Skibinski, R.Ph., Medication Safety Assessment

Maureen Smith, M.D., Ph.D., Quality of Care and Patient Safety

Bruce Thomadsen, Ph.D., Medical Physics and Risk Assessment

David Vanness, Ph.D., Health Economics and Technology Assessment

Financial Support 

AHRQ Training Grant in Population-Based Health Services Research and Healthcare Quality Improvement

Research and Project Assistantships on Health Care Quality and Safety-related Research Projects