The quality of health services is a global imperative. To this end, the OECD and the WHO have proposed a common framework for action. To ensure that quality is taken into account, these organisations recommend several measures, one of which is to ensure the training of a high quality health workforce. The 3rd EU Health Action Programme also supports the training of all health personnel. The 3 partner countries of the project (FR,RO,GR) have fully integrated these objectives.

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The challenge of the project is to support a profound change in professional practices by developing and deploying a transversal Lifelong Learning system for medical professions aimed at managing the quality of care and health risks (MQCHR). For professionals, taking into account the experience acquired and the need to ensure the security of career paths means that this system must be integrated into a certification system. This is the general objective of this project.

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The evolution of the health professions and the European directives for the quality of care highlight a deficit of qualification in MQCHR. Quality specialists, but also managers and employees responsible for quality in the various departments of medical establishments are the professionals responsible for the changes to be made. They are the target audience for this project. The direct users of the results will be the training organisations in the health professions as well as the certifying organisations (institutions). The indirect users will be the medical companies.

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The three partner countries are France, Greece and Romania. Through the constitution of its consortium of 10 partners (national authorities for the quality of medical services, companies in the medical sector, training organisations, universities, social partners, professional organisations) the project establishes teaching-employment partnerships that guarantee the dissemination and sustainability of the project. It builds and tests on 150 trainees a certification in "Health Qualitician" in accordance with the EQF and the Bologna process, in a growing sector with a shortage of skills. It is developing a modular training system covering all the fields of quality of care and risk management in health and is professionalising 45 trainers.

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It is increasing the penetration of ICT in teaching by building open educational resources over 25% of training time.

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The outputs will be the following:

• A basic LLL modular system, transversal to the medical sector professions for the management of the quality of care and health risks

• A reference frame of activities and competences and a reference frame of certification for the function of the MQCHR

• Modular architecture of the training repository and certification file of the short cycle for MQCHR with a correlation table with the existing EQF level certifications (5 and 6) in each country.

 

The method used will reconcile the competency-based approach for each production with compliance with the EQF and the Bologna process and the adaptation of the productions to the realities of each of the participating countries. It includes at each key stage a validation phase, both national, involving the country's multisectoral partners, and transnational, involving all the project partners.

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The expected impact:

• Training organisations will be able to develop a new training offer fully adapted to the needs of medical companies and accessible through ODL

• Companies in the medical sector will be able to recruit qualified and competent personnel to meet the new national and European directives and regulations

• Managers and employees of medical companies will be able to broaden their field of competence 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 their profession

• The qualitative and quantitative increase in the training courses followed by professionals in the medical sector to develop their skills in the management of the quality of care and health risks for two reasons: because of the taking into account of the experience acquired in the definition of the course thanks to the modular architecture of the system and because of the remote access to part of the modules which is easier to reconcile with an activity

• The strengthening of the partnership practice in the development of vocational training adapted to an employment-training issue in the medical sector through the participation in this work of representatives of the branch, public institutions of health and training, companies and training organisations

• Contributing to the acceleration of the development of quality in medical services.