Patient Safety

Korshub's take

Johns Hopkins brings its clinical quality-improvement expertise to this beginner-level specialization on patient safety, which has attracted over 27,500 learners. Rather than clinical skills, it's built around the systems and culture that prevent errors in healthcare settings — a discipline that sits at the intersection of healthcare and organizational management.

What's covered

• Foundations of patient safety and how health systems create (or erode) safety assurance
• Risk analysis methods for identifying where errors are most likely to occur
• Quality improvement and continuous quality improvement (CQI) frameworks
• Systems thinking — understanding safety as an outcome of process and culture, not individual blame

Who it's for

Designed for healthcare professionals, administrators, and quality-improvement staff, and structured so that no prior clinical training is required. It also holds up well for anyone in a safety-critical industry who wants a rigorous introduction to systems-level risk thinking.