Health Management

This course is designed for health professionals currently in, or seeking to be in, middle and senior health care management positions.

If you are seeking to expand your knowledge and skills in the management of health services, this degree caters for your needs.

This includes medical or general hospital administrators, clinicians, quality assurance managers, team leaders, senior nursing administrators, unit managers and a range of general task coordinators within the health care system.

The course is structured in 2 parts. Part A Advanced Healthcare Administration and Management and Part B. Extending specialist knowledge electives. All students complete Part A and B.

[Note that if you are eligible for credit for prior studies you may elect not to receive the credit.]

Alternative qualifications

You may be eligible to exit your course early and apply to graduate with one of the following qualifications, provided you have met the requirements for the qualification during your enrolment in the Masters course:

• Graduate Certificate in Health Management: you’ll need to complete a total of 24 credit points (6 months full time study), with a minimum of 18 credit points at level 4 or above.
• Graduate Diploma in Health Management: you’ll need to complete a total of 48 credit points (1 year full time study), with a minimum of 36 credit points at level 4 or above.

If you decide to graduate early, you will need to discontinue from the Masters course. You may be eligible to receive credit for the units you have completed if you re-apply and are re-admitted to this course or apply for another graduate degree at Monash University.

Part A. Advanced Healthcare Administration and Management

These studies provide you with a comprehensive study of health services management and administration, enabling you to gain advanced skills and knowledge. This includes in areas of health system laws, clinical leadership and management, quality improvement, financial and information management, health policy and health services development.

Part B. Extending specialist knowledge electives

These studies enable you to develop specialised knowledge and advanced skills in areas that suit your interests, skills and career goals. The theoretical and practical skills you gain are consolidated through the completion of a case study, in which you focus on exploring in detail a complex health services management problem within your workplace or within a health care setting.

Qualifications

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

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 9 and Monash Graduate Attributes. Upon successful completion of this course it is expected that you will be able to:

1.

apply the principles of financial and information management to a health care organisation

2.

appreciate the economic and political influences and their relationships to health policy

3.

analyse the basic elements of health care systems and compare recent health care reforms

4.

critically appraise the interface between health care management theory and practice

5.

develop the epidemiological and statistical skills necessary for evidence-based medicine, quality improvement and program evaluations

6.

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

7.

demonstrate an understanding of medico-legal issues and business law as applied to the management of health services

8.

develop skills in health care quality measurement, quality assurance, and quality improvement

9.

analyse complex work place management problems and appropriate problem-solving techniques

10.

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, database, statistical and word-processing computer software

11.

develop skills in a number of areas of special interest as defined in the specific objectives of individual elective units.