Health Management

This course, offered by the Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, is designed to provide you with the skills to manage clinical health care systems and processes.

The degree gives you a broad framework from which to manage clinical health care systems.

It covers human resource, financial, informational, medico-legal, political, cultural, economic, ethical, industrial, technological and psychosocial issues.

The course comprises 48 points. All students complete 7 core units and 1 elective unit.

Qualifications

An Australian undergraduate degree (or equivalent) in an appropriate discipline, with a credit (60%) average and relevant professional experience, or qualification/experience or satisfactory substitute that the faculty considers to be equivalent.

The department will individually assess applications from students without a degree who have extensive professional experience.

English requirements

Applicants must also meet the English language requirements.

University entrance requirements

Minimum entrance requirements for admission to Monash University Australia.

Learning outcomes

These course outcomes are aligned with the Australian Qualifications Framework level 8 and Monash Graduate Attributes. Upon successful completion of this course it is expected that you will be able to:

1.

demonstrate a detailed understanding of principles of financial, resource and information management in clinical health care systems

2.

demonstrate a detailed understanding of medico-legal issues in clinical health management

3.

demonstrate a detailed understanding of basic elements of health care systems

4.

demonstrate a detailed understanding of health care quality assurance and quality improvement

5.

demonstrate a detailed understanding of factors which influence the design and implementation of health programs

6.

demonstrate a detailed understanding of epidemiological and statistical skills necessary for the understanding of evidenced based medicine, quality improvement and health program evaluations

7.

be familiar with research initiatives in clinical health policy and clinical health policy and clinical health services planning

8.

demonstrate skills in working in a team and team leadership

9.

demonstrate skills in literature review, report writing, oral presentations, verbal and visual communications and the basic use of computers

10.

demonstrate skills in 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.