Program Announcement

Program details and application procedures:
 Program Announcement

Program Overview

The Office of Academic Affiliations and the National Center for Patient Safety (NCPS), Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) announce a one year fellowship in patient safety. The purpose of the Interprofessional Fellowship Program in Patient Safety is to provide post-residency trained physicians and post doctoral or post masters degree trained associated health professionals (such as nurses, psychologists, pharmacists, social workers and health care administrators) in-depth education in patient safety practice and leadership.

This program is accepting applications for two positions at each of the six training sites.

The Interprofessional Fellowship Program in Patient Safety links individualized, mentored training at the five training sites to a state-of-the-art curriculum in the science of patient safety improvement. Fellowship sites are linked electronically for didactic, academic and research efforts.

To inquire about the application process and to learn more about the program, interested physicians should write to the site of their choice and send a cover letter and curriculum vitae to that site.

Fellowship Director Address List

Focus: Patient Safety Fellows will experience Small town-major university setting; close connection to VA Central Office in DC; Patient safety leadership and policy Development, implementation, and operation of system-wide patient safety problem solving and program development alert & advisory processes. Work with FDA, HSR&D, university, government and regulatory agencies; work with manufacturers and standards organizations. Root Cause Analysis, Healthcare Failure Mode and Effect Analysis, Medical Team Training, Patient Safety curriculum for graduate medical education

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Research Focus: Lean quality improvement methods, qualitative methods.

Research Focus: Simulation

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