Spring 2027

Optimizing Value, Quality and Safety in Healthcare

Optimizing Value, Quality and Safety in Healthcare explores key concepts of value, quality, and safety in surgical settings to improve US healthcare systems.

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Summary

What you’ll be able to do

  • Demonstrate understanding of system efforts to promote high value healthcare.

  • Integrate understanding of complex care for individuals with policy or institutional level strategies to improve health

  • Identify processes or attitudes that may (or may not) provide for the fair and just distribution of healthcare resources.

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Prerequisites

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MED SC-M 810, 811, 812, and 813

SURGERY 973

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Student experience

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An in-depth understanding of the key concepts of value, quality and safety is critical to the education of future physicians. The majority of adverse events experienced by hospitalized patients occur in surgery. Surgery offers the ideal setting to explore these three components critical to improving the US healthcare system. Examine factors that influence the care we provide and critically consider the value of this care. Observe efforts to improve value in surgery focusing on quality, safety and appropriate utilization of critical resources and consider areas for improvement. Follow patients in all processes of care from clinic, to the operating room, through their postoperative course, to discharge, and consider how important measures to secure safety and quality are encountered and impact care in the clinical arena. Consider price and allocation of scarce resources. Gather information for their analysis of the patient experience.

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Topics

  • Adverse events in surgery
  • Improving value through quality, safety, and resource utilization
  • Patient care processes from clinic to discharge
  • Price and allocation of scarce resources

Skills

  • Analyzing the patient experience
  • Understanding system efforts to promote high value healthcare
  • Integrating individual care with policy or institutional strategies
  • Identifying processes for fair distribution of healthcare resources

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SURGERY 973 · Spring 2027

Optimizing Value, Quality and Safety in Healthcare

Recorded 2026-10-14
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Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B
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