Postgraduate - UnitMPH5304 - Leading and managing in public health and health care

This unit entry is for students who completed this unit in 2015 only. For students planning to study the unit, please refer to the unit indexes in the the current edition of the Handbook. If you have any queries contact the managing faculty for your course or area of study.

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6 points, SCA Band 2, 0.125 EFTSL

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Level	Postgraduate
Faculty	Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences
Organisational Unit	Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine
Offered	Monash Online Teaching Period 1 2015 (Online)
Coordinator(s)	Professor Just Stoelwinder

Synopsis

The aim of this unit is to provide health service managers and public health practitioners with the knowledge and skills to manage health care organisational units.

Over 6 weekly modules students will explore key management theories, leadership skills, managing health professionals, designing and coordinating health professional work processes, managing change and projects.

Each module includes an overview of the relevant concepts and resources, guided readings and online, instructor moderated, discussions of applied issues with student peers.

Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this unit, students should be able to:

Apply general theories of organisation and management to health care organisational settings
Design organisational roles and structures to manage clinical and support services
Apply coordinating mechanisms in clinical and public health organisations
Implement staff recruitment processes
Design and manage staff performance systems
Apply principles of change management to improve organisational performance
Develop strategic plans
Implement effective project management.

Assessment

Responses to 6 weekly forum discussion topics (45%)
Written assignment (1,500 words) (25%)
Written assignment (2,000 words) (30%)

Workload requirements

Off-campus: 20 hours per week for 6 weeks.

Chief examiner(s)

Professor Just Stoelwinder

This unit applies to the following area(s) of study

Public health

Co-requisites

Must be enrolled in courses 4528 or 4529.