Module Code - Title:
PD6002
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HUMAN FACTORS IN HEALTH SYSTEMS
Year Last Offered:
2023/4
Hours Per Week:
Grading Type:
N
Prerequisite Modules:
Rationale and Purpose of the Module:
The purpose of this module is to give students an appreciation and understanding of the importance of Human Factors as it permeates and affects all aspects of product and systems design in health contexts. Students will be educated on aspects of physical, cognitive and social aspects of interaction, including physical interaction of surgical medical devices, cognitive aspects of usability in health technology design, to socio-technical aspects of health systems design.
Syllabus:
The syllabus includes the following:
• Role of Human Factors in health systems design
• User centered design strategies
• Human factors methodologies for design
• Interaction and surgical device design
• Human factors in patient safety
• Human error in healthcare
• Usability testing
• Participatory design and stakeholder analysis
• User experience and technology adoption of assistive technologies
• Human Factors and risk management of medical devices (ISO 62366)
• Ethics and regulatory aspects of health technology design and testing.
Learning Outcomes:
Cognitive (Knowledge, Understanding, Application, Analysis, Evaluation, Synthesis)
On successful completion of this module students will be able to:
• Explain how human factors affect interaction in health care product and system interaction.
• Analyse health systems contexts by applying human factors research method.
• Compose end user research studies to collect data describing the user system interactions.
• Evaluate/critique health technologies for quality of usability and user experience.
Affective (Attitudes and Values)
On successful completion of this module students will be able to:
• Appreciate the role of ethics in considering human and animal testing aspects of health technology design research and testing.
• Develop their interaction skills for performing direct user studies and ethnographic research.
Psychomotor (Physical Skills)
NA.
How the Module will be Taught and what will be the Learning Experiences of the Students:
This module involves a combination of class room based lectures to teach the core knowledge based elements of the syllabus. Students will also undertake significant independent reading around the lecture topics to augment the context of the lectures in health settings. The practical and practice based aspects of the module involved collaborative and independent laboratory exercises involving problem based learning. The module will involve extensive user studies, and where possible, studies in real world health contexts, where students will develop their skills for responsible aspects of design (safety and efficacy).
Research Findings Incorporated in to the Syllabus (If Relevant):
Prime Texts:
Carayon, P. (2012)
Human Factors and Ergonomics in Health Care and Patient Safety
, CRC Press
Rosenorn-Lanng, D. (2014)
Human Factors in Healthcare
, Oxford University Press
Stanton, N. (2005)
Human Factors Methods: A Practical Guide for Engineering and Design
, Ashgate
Wickens, C. (2013)
Introduction to Human Factors Engineering
, Pearson
Wiklund, S. & Wilcox, S. (2005)
Designing Usability into Medical Products
, CRC Press
Winters, J. and Story, M.F. (2007)
Medical Instrumentation: Accessibility and Usability Considerations
, CRC Press
Other Relevant Texts:
Programme(s) in which this Module is Offered:
Semester - Year to be First Offered:
Module Leader:
Leonard.OSullivan@ul.ie