Overview
What you will study
As a health-care organization or advisor, you are under increased pressure and scrutiny.
Ensuring you understand your legal responsibilities and being able to effectively reduce and manage your legal risk has never been more critical. The Clinical Risk, Negligence and Claims Management in Health Care course offered by York University will help with that.
Programme Structure
The program focuses on:
- Understanding key patient safety concepts
- Linking patient safety, risk management and the role of the risk manager
- Conducting post-incident investigations
- Dealing with adverse events including how to effectively work with the media
- Defence best practices, mitigation strategies, importance of documentation, tips & tools on evidence preservation
- The impact of being sued: dealing with the pressure of litigation
- Health care risk: a view from the Bench
Key information
Duration
- Full-time
- 2 months
- Part-time
- 2 months
Start dates & application deadlines
- StartingApply anytime.
Language
Delivered
Disciplines
Health Administration Risk Management View 11 other Short Courses in Health Administration in CanadaAcademic requirements
We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.
English requirements
We are not aware of any English requirements for this programme.
Student insurance
Make sure to cover your health, travel, and stay while studying abroad. Even global coverages can miss important items, so make sure your student insurance ticks all the following:
- Additional medical costs (i.e. dental)
- Repatriation, if something happens to you or your family
- Liability
- Home contents and baggage
- Accidents
- Legal aid
We partnered with Aon to provide you with the best affordable student insurance, for a carefree experience away from home.
Get your student insurance nowStarting from €0.53/day, free cancellation any time.
Remember, countries and universities may have specific insurance requirements. To learn more about how student insurance work at York University and/or in Canada, please visit Student Insurance Portal.
Other requirements
General requirements
- Quality leaders
- Compliance officers from health-care institutions
- Health-care risk managers
- Patient safety representatives
- Health-care organization CEOs and senior staff
- Professional association and licensing body representatives
- Health-care professionals from all disciplines
- Lawyers practicing health law (both in-house and from private practice)
- Medical directors of health-care organizations and government agencies
- Heath insurance industry professionals
- Ethicists
- Government and public policy advisors
Tuition Fee
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International
3595 CAD/fullTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 3595 CAD for the full programme during 2 months. -
National
3595 CAD/fullTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 3595 CAD for the full programme during 2 months.
$3,595 + TAX
Living costs for Toronto
The living costs include the total expenses per month, covering accommodation, public transportation, utilities (electricity, internet), books and groceries.