The Foundational Patient Safety Stream consists of five courses.

Patient Safety - Level 1

The Patient Safety Certificate - Level 1 is made up of the following three courses.

• PPS100 A Culture of Patient Safety is the pre-requisite course for both patient safety certificate levels. It reviews fundamental patient safety concepts that impact an emerging mindfulness of a patient safety culture in a healthcare system.
• PPS101 Communication for Patient Safety explores how effective multidisciplinary communication contributes to the prevention of patient harm and adverse events.
• PPS102 Teamwork for Patient Safety explains the elements of effective teamwork within healthcare and how to address challenges that face healthcare teams in their pursuit of positive healthcare outcomes.

It is recommended that you complete the Patient Safety Certificate - Level 1 before taking Level 2.

Patient Safety - Level 2

The Patient Safety Certificate - Level 2 is made up of two project-based courses. If you consider yourself a new or emerging leader, both certificates are strongly recommended.

• PPS103 Patient Safety Risks & Hazards introduces the learner to risk concepts and principles. The course explores how to best identify and respond to risks and hazards within a healthcare organization.
• PPS104 Advancing Patient Safety Improvement builds on the content from PPS103 and explains the concepts of prioritization, metrics, measures and data which play an integral role in the recommendations for improvement. The course will guide the learner through the process of using real time patient safety measures and metrics to analyze patient safety data in order to write recommendations for potential safety improvement initiatives.

The Intermediate Patient Safety Stream is subject matter content that is applied. The content is related at a leadership level and is designed to guide the leader in their understanding of AHS operations.

• Communicating Unexpected Outcomes - Disclosure Skills for Teams provides insight into the patient and family experience following an unexpected outcome and enhances communication skills for disclosing with honesty, empathy, and respect. This course is the pre-requisite for the Leaders course.
• Communicating Unexpected Outcomes - Disclosure Skills for Leaders provides healthcare leaders the opportunity to practice post-analysis disclosure conversations through simulated exercises and provides the knowledge and skills to support healthcare providers.

The Foundational Quality Improvement Stream consists of one foundational course. Ideally this should be taken after the Patient Safety Certificate - Level 2 courses, which establish an important foundation for quality improvement initiatives.

The Quality Improvement Certificate is made up of the following course.

• PQI100 Foundations of Quality Improvement is designed to challenge the learner to understand quality improvement within the healthcare system and to be able to explore concepts and principles within the context of the quality improvement process.

The AQuIS Curriculum is approved and accredited by both the College of Family Physicians of Canada (CFPC) and the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada (RCPSC) as outlined below.

College of Physicians of Canada (CFPC): Continuing Professional Development (CPD)  

• PPS100 A Culture of Patient Safety: This 1 credit-per-hour Group Learning Program has been certified for up to 6 Mainpro+ credits.
• Communicating Unexpected Outcomes - Disclosure Skills for Teams:  This 3 credits-per-hour Group Learning Program has been certified for up to 18 Mainpro+ credits.
• Communicating Unexpected Outcomes - Disclosure Skills for Leaders: This 3 credits-per-hour Group Learning Program has been certified for up to 12 Mainpro+ credits.

Royal College of Physicians & Surgeons of Canada (RCPSC): Maintenance of Certification Program (MOC)

• Foundations of Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Program
  This activity is an Accredited Self-Assessment Program (Section 3). You may claim a maximum of 36 hours. (6 hours per course)
  • PPS100 A Culture of Patient Safety: 6 hours 
  • PPS101 Communication for Patient Safety: 6 hours
  • PPS102 Teamwork for Patient Safety: 6 hours
  • PPS103 Patient Safety Risks & Hazards: 6 hours
  • PPS104 Advancing Patient Safety Improvement: 6 hours
  • PQI100 Foundations of Quality Improvement: 6 hours
• Communicating Unexpected Outcomes - Disclosure Skills for Teams
  This activity is an Accredited Simulation Activity (Section 3). You may claim a maximum of 3.75 hours. (1.75 hours (Section 1) & 2 hours (Section 2))
• Communicating Unexpected Outcomes - Disclosure Skills for Leaders
  This activity is an Accredited Self-Assessment Program (Section 3). You may claim a maximum of 2.75 hours.