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Certificate course in 12-Pillar Clinical Governance Programme Cohort-2

The Certificate Course is designed to equip trainees with an understanding of the 12-Pillar Clinical Governance Programme (12-PCGP). The 12-Pillars collectively shape the safety, effectiveness, and other domains of quality in healthcare delivery in Lower, Low, and Middle Income Countries (LLMIC) e.g. Nigeria.                             

The Certificate Course shall comprise written content on each of the 12 Pillars, plus the special topics in Clinical Governance: ‘Logistics and Supply Chain in Healthcare’, ‘Nutrition, Food Safety and Hygiene in Healthcare’, and ‘Occupational Health and Safety in Healthcare’, shared into three modules, and the trainees shall answer essay-type questions for the assessment, and submit the answers as provided.

Learning outcomes of the Certificate Course in the 12-Pillar Clinical Governance Programme

  • Trainees develop basic understanding of 12-Pillar Clinical Governance Programme and its contextual importance in
    healthcare.

  • Trainees learn basic health improvement processes to provide quality care to patients, and to ensure full
    accountability of the health system to patients and staff.

  • Trainees learn the cascaded implementation of 12-Pillar Clinical Governance as designed for sustainability.

  • Trainees learn to analyse the structures and functions of the Health Services in relation to clinical governance in
    context.

  • Trainees develop basic knowledge in clinical effectiveness and its application in healthcare practice.

  • Trainees demonstrate knowledge of clinical audits and reserach, including their purposes and how they are
    conducted.

Study method: Online

Tuition: Free

Duration for Cohort-2 Class: 3 months (1st February – April 2025)

The certificate of completion of the Certificate Course shall be awarded to only successful trainees at the end of the course, on paying an Admin Fee.

Eligibility for the Certificate course: this course is suitable for all medical practitioners and health workers, clinical and non-clinical, including health facility chief executives, officers-in-charge, administrators, policy makers and implementers, logistics and supply chain and stores personnel, occupational health and safety personnel, food safety and hygiene personnel. It is also suitable for monitoring and evaluation in health care personnel.

Additional information:

  • One webinar, one module per month for lectures

  • Assessment questions for each of the 12 Pillars and 3 Special Topics, shall submitted for marking after each module’s
    webinar.

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Advanced Certificate Course in 12-Pillar Clinical Governance Programme

The Advanced Certificate course is designed to equip trainees with a deeper understanding, and the practice of the 12-Pillar Clinical Governance Programme (12-PCGP). The 12-Pillars collectively shape the safety, effectiveness, and other domains of quality in healthcare delivery in Lower-, Low-, and Middle-Income Countries (LLMIC).
The Advanced Certificate course trainees shall be holders of the Certificate of Completion of the Foundation Certificate Course in 12-PCGP. They shall further their knowledge and skills in the subject by completing a written course work on an approved topic related to one of the 12-Pillars or 3 Special Topics of 12-Pillar Clinical Governance Programme, and shall undertake a planned and structured observership / practical attachment in a quality accredited hospital, as determined by the Centre for Clinical Governance Research and Patient Safety (CCGR&PS). The planned observership/attachment shall in total last one week. The trainees shall be responsible for applying to the hospital for the observership/attachment, drawing from the list of approved hospitals provided by the CCGR&PS.

Eligibility for the Advanced Certificate Course: trainees must possess the Certificate of Completion of the foundational Certificate Course in 12-PCGP. This
advanced course equips the trainee beyond the theoretical knowledge and is suitable for all medical practitioners and health workers, clinical and non-clinical, including health facility chief executives, officers-in-charge, administrators, policymakers and implementers, logistics and supply chain and stores personnel, occupational health and safety personnel, Nutrition, food safety, and hygiene personnel. It is also suitable for monitoring and evaluation in health care personnel.

Learning Outcomes of the Advanced Certificate Course in 12-Pillar Clinical Governance Programme:

  • Trainees develop a deeper understanding and practice of the 12-Pillar Clinical
  • Governance Programme and its contextual importance in health care delivery in LLMIC.
  • Trainees learn the cascaded implementation and sustainability of 12-PCGP in their system/facility
  • Trainees learn and see how to achieve and maintain improvement of quality of care the is provided to patients, and how to ensure accountability by the
    health system and staff to patients.
  • Trainees learn practical demonstrations of clinical audits and clinical research, including their purpose and utility in quality health care delivery.

Study method: Hybrid – online for course work and in-person for observership/attachment.

  • Complete and submit a course work (topic chosen in consultation with CCGR&PS) aided by the ‘How to do it’ webinars.
  • Complete an Observership / Practical attachment and receive a positive Report from the hospital.

Tuition: Free
(HRI Global shall not charge for the training, but the trainee shall be responsible for any hospital attachment/observership institution charges, and for his/her upkeep and logistics for the attachment).
Duration: (3-months, planning is in progress for a start date) WATCH OUT!.
N/B: The Certificate of Completion of the Advanced Certificate Course in 12-PCGP
shall be awarded to only the successful trainees, on paying an Admin Fee.

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