Creation of an European training certification for quality of care and health risks management Erasmus Project

Project Title

Creation of an European training certification for quality of care and health risks management

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Strategic Partnerships for vocational education and training

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Health and wellbeing; International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation

Project Summary

The quality of health services is a global imperative. For this, the OECD and the WHO have proposed a common framework of actions. To ensure that quality is taken into account, these organisations foresee several measures, one of which is to ensure high-quality training of health personnel. The EU’s third action program in the field of health also supports the training of all health personnel. The three partner countries of the project (FR, RO, and GR) have fully integrated these objectives.
The challenge of this project is therefore to accompany a profound change in professional practices by developing and deploying a LLL toolkit which is transversal to all professions in the medical sector, aiming the quality of care and health risks management (GQSRS). Addressed to professionals, taking into account the experience acquired as well as the need to secure the training routes, require the integration of this toolkit in a certification. This is the general objective of this project.
The evolution of the health professions and the European directives for the quality of care reveal a lack of qualification in GQSRS. The quality specialists but also the employees acting as quality references from various departments of medical establishments are the professionals carrying the changes to be made to all levels of the chain of achievement. They are targeted by this project.
The direct users of the results will be training organizations in the health professions as well as (institutional) certifying bodies. The indirect users will be medical companies.
Due to the creation of its consortium (national authorities for quality of medical services, companies in the medical sector, training organizations, universities, social partners, professional organizations), the project builds “education-employment” partnerships guarantying dissemination and sustainability of project results.
The project creates and tests out of 150 trainees a certification in “Health Qualitician” in accordance with the EQF and the Bologna process, in a growing sector with a shortage of professional skills.
It elaborates a modular training toolkit covering all fields of quality care and health risk management and professionalises 45 trainers.
It increases the penetration of ICT in education by creating pedagogical resources with 25% in distance learning.
The productions will be:
• A basic LLL modular toolkit, transversal to the professions of the medical sector for the management of the quality of care and health risks
• A repository of activities and skills and a repository of professional certification for the function of GQSRS
• Modular architecture training reference and short cycle certification file for GQSRS with a correlation table with existing certifications at EQF level (5 and 6) in each country.
The method used will reconcile for each production the competency-based approach, in compliance with the EQF and the Bologna process and the adaptation of the productions to realities from each participating countries. At each key step, it includes a validation phase that is both national that involve country’s multisectoral partners, then transnational where all project partners are represented.
Expected impact:
-Training organizations will be able to develop a new training offer totally adapted to the needs of medical companies and accessible in ODL
-Medical companies will be able to recruit qualified and competent personnel to cope with new national and European directives and regulations
-Managers and employees of medical companies will be able to widen their field of skills and have a more transversal and complete vision of their interventions. They will improve their employability and mobility by taking into account the new constraints of exercising their profession.
-Qualitative and quantitative increase in training followed by professionals from the medical sector for developing their skills in managing the quality of care and health risks for two reasons: because of the inclusion of prior experience in defining the route thanks to the modular architecture of the toolkit and thanks to distance learning for some modules, more easily to be reconciled with medical activities
-The strengthening of the partnership practice in the development of vocation training adapted to a job-training issue in the medical sector by the participation in the project of representatives of the branch, of public health and training institutions, of training companies and organizations
-The contribution to accelerating the development of quality in medical services.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 299992 Eur

Project Coordinator

Autoritatea Nationala de Management al Calitatii in Sanatate & Country: RO

Project Partners

• ASOCIATIA PARTENER GRUPUL DE INITIATIVA PENTRU DEZVOLTAREA LOCALA
• Université Côte d’Azur
• DIMOS ATHINAION
• CENTRE HOSPITALIER UNIVERSITAIRE DE NICE
• KEK EUROERGASIAKI Sa
• PANEPISTIMIO DYTIKIS ATTIKIS
• UNIVERSITATEA DE MEDICINA SI FARMACIE IULIU HATIEGANU CLUJ-NAPOCA