Course Overview
The Graduate Certificate in Health Management is a postgraduate course that aims to build core knowledge and skills in students and healthcare professionals through development of enhanced knowledge and understanding of contemporary issues in healthcare, self, individual and team leadership and quality, safe, collaborative healthcare practice and delivery.
Course Learning Outcomes
- Demonstrate the leadership capabilities required to effectively manage self, individuals and teams in the delivery of healthcare.
- Evaluate current healthcare challenges to improve the quality of healthcare delivery.
- Design appropriate strategies to address current quality and safety challenges in healthcare.
- Develop plans to build and improve own leadership and management capabilities to enhance collaborative practice to address current and future organisational needs.
Course Overview
The Graduate Diploma in Health Management is a postgraduate level course that aims to expand on the knowledge and skills developed in the Graduate Certificate to enable the application of theories, evidence, models and frameworks to achieve best practice for the management and leadership challenges commonly faced in healthcare practice.
Course Learning Outcomes
- Demonstrate the leadership capabilities required to manage healthcare delivery and services;
- Develop effective communication skills to engage teams and enhance collaboration;
- Apply critical thinking skills to devise best practice, evidence-based solutions to healthcare challenges;
- Evaluate own and others’ contribution to teamwork using recognised frameworks; and
- Demonstrate mindfulness of cultural, social and economic diversity and be sensitive to the needs of marginalised population groups, particularly Indigenous Australians.
Course Overview
This is an advanced-level course in healthcare management that aims to expand students’ and healthcare professionals’ knowledge and skills in healthcare management in the areas of people and resource management, governance, quality and safety, health economics and strategic planning, leadership of change initiatives, eHealth, technology and health research.
Course Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of the Master of Health Management, graduates will be able to:
- Demonstrate critical thinking and reflective leadership that influences practice and use policy and research to foster excellence in health care delivery.
- Use effective leadership capabilities (or behaviours and skills) to manage health services and apply change management and quality improvement processes.
- Lead others in a diverse, complex and challenging situations to achieve team and health organisation goals.
- Demonstrate ethical, cultural and social accountability when interacting with individuals, members of multidisciplinary teams, families and community members.
- Address cultural, social and economic diversity, particularly that of Indigenous Australians, and integrate this knowledge into their health management and leadership practice
