2872 - Master of Health Services Management

This course, offered by the Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, 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.

Assessment

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

On completion of this course, graduates should be able to:

• apply the principles of financial and information management to a health care
• appreciate the economic and political influences and their relationships to health policy
• analyse the basic elements of health care systems and compare recent health care reforms
• critically appraise the interface between health care management theory and practice
• develop the epidemiological and statistical skills necessary for evidence-based medicine, quality improvement and program evaluations
• use international comparisons of health care systems and recent reforms to analyse the various models of funding, delivering, co-coordinating and developing health care systems
• demonstrate an understanding of medico-legal issues and business law as applied to the management of health services
• understand and develop skills in health care quality measurement, quality assurance, and quality improvement
• analyse complex work place management problems and appropriate problem solving techniques
• demonstrate interpersonal, communication and leadership skills appropriate for health care managers, 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 and develop skills in a number of areas of special interest as defined in the specific objectives of individual elective units.

Students complete eight core units and three elective units.

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
• MPH2073 Case study in health services management

Elective units

Select three of the following:

• MPH2085 Human factors for patient safety
• MPH2086 Applying and practicing the principles of patient safety and quality improvement
• ECX9700 Introduction to health economics
• CPE7603 Contemporary issues in health informatics
• GHS9850 Nursing practice and management
• NUR9201 Case management and care integration
• NUR9215 Advanced nursing practice in context

Master of Health Services Management

* 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.