2314 - Graduate Diploma in Health Services Management
This course entry should be read in conjunction with information provided in the Faculty information section of this Handbook by the managing faculty for this course
| Abbreviated title | GradDipHlthServMt |
|---|---|
| CRICOS Code | 037848B |
| Managing faculty | Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences |
| Study location and mode | Off-campus On-campus Students are required to complete compulsory block requirements each semester. |
| Total credit points required | 48 |
| Duration (years) | 1 year FT, 2 years PT |
| Contact details | Postgraduate office: telephone +61 3 9903 0563; email pgradenq@med.monash.edu.au or visit http://www.med.monash.edu.au/epidemiology/pgrad |
| Course coordinator | Professor Just Stoelwinder |
Description
Assessment
Assessment includes web-based tasks, written assignments, examinations, and individual and group presentations.
Objectives
On completion of the course, graduates should be able to demonstrate a detailed understanding of:
- principles of financial, resource and information management in clinical health care systems
- medico-legal issues in clinical health services management
- basic elements of health care systems
- health care quality assurance and quality improvement
- factors which influence the design and implementation of health programs
- epidemiological and statistical skills necessary for the understanding of evidenced based medicine, quality improvement and health program evaluations.
Students should also be familiar with research initiatives in clinical health policy and clinical health policy and clinical health services planning, and have skills in:
- working in a team and team leadership
- literature review, report writing, oral presentations, verbal and visual communications and the basic use of computers
- analysis of the economic, political, cultural, ethical, industrial, technological and psycho-social determinants of clinical health care systems and their relationship to health policy initiatives.
Structure
Requirements
Core units
- ECX9720 Introduction to epidemiology and biostatistics
- 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
Elective units
Select one of the following:
- CPE7603 Contemporary issues in health informatics
- DEPM postgraduate units
- ECX9700 Introduction to Health Economics
- GHS9850 Nursing practice and management
- MPH2085 Human factors for patient safety
- MPH2086 Applying and practicing the principles of patient safety and quality improvement
- NUR9201 Case management and care integration
- NUR9215 Advanced nursing practice in context
Progression to further studies
Award(s) received on completion *
* Where more than one award is listed, or in the case of double degrees, where more than one award is listed for one or both components of the double degree, the actual award/s conferred may depend on units/majors/streams/specialisations studied, the level of academic merit achieved (eg in the case of 'with honours' programs), or other factors relevant to the individual student's program of study.