Master of Health Services Management

Course code: 2872 + Course abbreviation: MHlthServMt + Total credit points required: 72 + 3 semesters full-time, 6 semesters part-time

Study mode and course location

On-campus for international students (Alfred Hospital, Melbourne)

Off-campus for domestic students (Alfred Hospital, Melbourne)

Course description

This course is offered by the Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine. The course provides professionals currently in, or seeking to be in, middle and senior health care management positions who wish to expand their knowledge and skills in the management of health services. It caters for the special needs of medical and general hospital administrators, clinical doctors, quality assurance managers, team leaders, senior nursing administrators, unit managers and a range of general task coordinators within the health care system. Students are required to complete compulsory block requirements each semester.

Course objectives

On completion of this course, graduates should be able to: 1. apply a detailed understanding of the principles of financial, resources and information management to a heath care context; 2. appreciate the economic, political, cultural, ethical, and psycho-social, influences in health care systems and their relationships to health policy initiatives; 3. critically appraise the interface between management/organisational theory and health care management practice; 4. demonstrate an understanding of medico-legal issues and business law as they apply to the management of health services; 5. analyse the basic elements of health care systems and compare and contrast recent international health care reform initiative; 6. demonstrate knowledge and develop skills in a number of areas of special interest as defined in the specific objectives of the individual elective units of this course; 7. demonstrate an understanding of, and develop skills in, health care quality measurement, quality assurance, and quality improvement; 8. develop the epidemiological and statistical skills necessary for the understanding of Evidence-Based Medicine, quality improvement and health program evaluations; 9. use international comparisons of health care systems and recent reform initiative to analyse the various models of funding, delivering, co-ordinating and developing health care systems; 10. demonstrate skills in the analysis of complex work place management problems and appropriate problem solving techniques; 11. demonstrate a high level of interpersonal, communication and team leadership skills appropriate for senior health care managers; and 12. demonstrate skills in literature review, report writing, oral presentations, verbal and visual communications and the basic use of spreadsheet, data-base, statistical and word processing computer software.

Course structure

This program is comprised of eight core units and three elective units.

Core units

MPH2065 Law for health systems
MPH2066 Clinical leadership and management
MPH2067 Principles of health care quality improvement
MPH2068 Financial issues in health care management
MPH2069 Health systems policy
MPH2072 Reform and development of health services
MPH2073 Case study in health services management
ECX9720 Introduction to epidemiology and biostatistics

Elective units

ECX9700 Introduction to health economics
Two electives (selected from DEPM postgraduate units)

Alternate elective units

NUR9201 Case management and care integration
NUR9215 Advanced nursing practice in context
GHS9850 Nursing practice and management
CPE7603 Contemporary issues in health informatics

Assessment

Assessment includes web-based tasks, written assignments, examinations, and individual and group presentations.

Contact details

Postgraduate Office: telephone: +61 3 9903 0563; email: pgradenq@med.monash.edu.au or visit www.med.monash.edu.au/epidemiology/pgrad/

Course coordinator

Professor Just Stoelwinder

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