Public Health Sciences Course Program (PHS)

Hot Topics in Health Care Research

Have you ever wondered about the complexities of health care, either as patient, relative, or professional? In this Module 2 course you will dive into four specific, important areas of health care. You’ll discover how health policy, law and financing shape health care systems, their organization and outcomes. Applied to specific examples, you learn which specific methods are used to study health care.

Ziele

At the end of this course, participants:

  • know current research questions and/ or practice problems in primary care, nursing, palliative care, quality and safety;
  • recognize significance of these “hot topics” for health systems and health services research;
  • have a basic understanding of key methods applied in health services research and know their advantages and limitations.

Inhalte

This course will address four specific, important topics of health care systems: Primary care, nursing, palliative care, quality and safety. In each topic, we will discuss uptodate research questions or practice problems and link these to health policy, law and health systems organization and financing. Key methods for health care research are introduced and discussed with their advantages and limitations, e.g. routine health care data as indicators for system performance

Arbeitsweise / Programm

Preparatory reading
Seminar
Discussion
Assignment(-s)

Basisinformationen

Nummer E046.234.25
Termine

Wednesday 21.05.2025, Safety
Tuesday 27.05.2025, Primary Care
Wednesday 11.06.2025, Nursing
Wednesday 18.06.2025, Palliative Care

Zeiten 13:00 - 17:00
Kursort

This course is being held online, on zoom
zoom link will be sent after regstration

Leitung

Professor David Schwappach,  Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (ISPM), University of Bern
Safety: Professor David Schwappach
Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (ISPM), University of Bern
Primary Care: Professor MD Sven Streit
Berner Institut für Hausarztmedizin (BIHAM), University of Bern
Nursing: Professor Sabine Hahn
Bern University of Applied Sciences (BFH)
Palliative Care: Professor Sofia Zambrano
Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (ISPM), University of Bern

Plätze max. 20 Personen
Kurssprache English
Anmeldefrist 07.05.2025
Format Individual event von Public Health Sciences Course Program
You will receive a certificate of attendance.
Trägerschaft

Faculty of Medicine University of Bern

Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (ISPM)
Public Health Sciences Course Program (PHS)

ECTS-Info

1 ECTS point will be credited for this course including four sessions

For an accreditation of the ECTS, a minimum of 80% attendance and active participation incl. completion of assignments and assessments are required.

 

root number KSL: 486266

Zielpublikum

All PhD students, Post-docs, clinicians and public health practitioners interested in health care research.

Besonderes

Course takes place every second year.

Anmelde- und Aufnahmeverfahren

A tertiary education degree is required. The program manager decides on the final admission. Priority is given to PhD students

Application process: You are requested to enroll online. Seats will be allocated according to date of enrolment. Three weeks before the course/workshop at the latest, the administration will decide and inform about running or cancelling the course/workshop.

Kosten

Amount still open

Administratives

Registration fees are waived for PhD students of the University of Bern who commit to the whole course attendance. To avoid being invoiced, it is mandatory that you indicate your institute and the matriculation number upon registration for the course. Please note cancellation regulations below.

Course fees for other participant categories:

PostDocs Uni Bern CHF 100
Other participants Uni Bern CHF 300
Participants other academic institutions 600
Other participants CHF 840

Participants completing the entire PHS Course Program benefit from a reduction; overview course fees here.

Annullierungsbestimmungen

After the closing date for registrations, the organisers will decide whether the course can take place. The decision is based on the number of registrations.

Kontakt

University of Bern
Public Health Sciences Course Program

c/o Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (ISPM)
Mittelstrasse 43
3012 Bern
Switzerland

Tel: +41 31 684 34 04

phs-admin.ispm@unibe.ch
www.medizin.unibe.ch/phs

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