Our part-time PG Diploma/MSc in Human Factors in Patient Safety programme is delivered 100% online, making it flexible for busy healthcare professionals. Scholars will attend online interactive sessions and workshops one day per month, the remainder of the programme includes didactic teaching, discussion boards and reading, which you can access in your own time. As our programme is delivered fully online, it attracts an inter-professional audience from around the world, coming from many different backgrounds including surgeons, nurses, pharmacists and more. 

 

So why should you study our Human Factors in Patient Safety programme at RCSI?

 

Our Human Factors academy is our alumni community of healthcare professionals dedicated to improving patient safety. Our alumni activities include an annual conference and our podcast series "Safe and Sound".

 

 

RCSI is one of the world's leading educational institutions in medicine and the health sciences. With the University ranking in the TOP 250 Universities worldwide, as well as being ranked number 5 in the world for SDG3 ‘Good Health and Wellbeing’ in the Times Higher Education University Impact Rankings 2023. 

 

Applications are now open for September 2025 intake. For more information, please click here.