Curso Livre de Missão Vida: Fatores Humanos e Gestão de Recursos para Equipas de Alto Desempenho na Saúde

Objectives

• Understand the fundamental principles of human factors and their direct impact on patient safety;
• Recognize human limitations, including fatigue, overload, and performance variability, and apply mitigation strategies;
• Apply teamwork skills, including leadership, followership, clear communication, assertiveness, and authority gradient management;
• Promote psychological safety and civil behavior in the workplace;
• Improve situational awareness and decision-making by integrating systems 1 and 2 thinking;
• Use structured communication tools (SBAR, bullet-point thinking, appropriate escalation);
• Conduct effective briefings, debriefings, and handovers, optimizing reliability and continuity of care;
• Use checklists professionally, understanding their limits and value;
• Incorporate human factors practices into clinical routine, making healthcare safer

Operating Mode

The course includes one virtual class (2 hours) and one in-person session, lasting 8 hours, on 12 May, from 09:00 to 18:00.

Depending on the number of registrations, an additional session may be held on 14/05/2026. The allocation of trainees to alternative dates will be coordinated with the course management.

This course is part of the project Medicine, Technology, and the Future - MedTech NEXT | Digital More Impulse, under the Medicine Reform and Modernization Sub-measure.

The course offers up to 32 scholarships for healthcare professionals residing in national territory (subject to funding availability).

The scholarships awarded under the project Medicine, Technology and the Future – MedTech NEXT | More Digital Impulse, Sub-measure Reform and Modernisation of Medicine, comply with the Regulations for Incentive Scholarships under the UAlg+Skills4All and FOSTEAM@SOUTH Projects of the University of Algarve – Adult Impulse. According to paragraph b) of Article 3, the Adult Impulse Incentive Scholarship constitutes annual financial support to partially cover the costs of tuition fees for non-degree courses, aimed at the upskilling or professional reskilling of adults who have reached the age of 23 by 31 December of the year preceding the application.