MAN 5118 Healthcare Management
MAN 5118 Healthcare Management
This healthcare management program aims for educating primary healthcare leaders to become action oriented and competent in handling the needs for change and innovation in the sector. The students are supposed to develop their competence in managing and leading in settings characterized by tensions between professional knowledge, available resources, and politics. Furthermore, students are supposed to develop their capacity to practice leadership and governance, in order to achieve the organizations aims regarding service quality, as well as resource utilization. hrough the program, the participants gain a good understanding of the development of the "patient's health service" and how collaboration with users, relatives, the local community, volunteers and the business community, etc. can strengthen the health and care service.
The students are expected to become familiar with research-based knowledge on central theories and models for leadership, management, organization, change and innovation, with a particular focus on leadership and innovation management within the primary healthcare services.
In addition, the students are expected to learn about:
-the relationships between organizing and user-, relationship-, and goal-oriented leadership.
-tools and methods for analyzing and managing competence.
-the primary healthcare services framework conditions, and how they influence management.
-the interplay between economic management and work to improve quality, efficiency, change, and innovation within the healthcare services.
The students are expected to:
-learn to recognize leadership and management related challenges, and utilize relevant perspectives, models and tools for identifying, developing and using the available room for action.
-develop ability to initiate and manage innovation and change oriented activities at different levels.
-learn how to facilitate workplace learning.
-strengthen their abilities in interaction oriented management; to communicate and mobilize resources across service providers, voluntary organizations, users and their relatives, and specialist healthcare.
The students are expected to become able to:
-reflect critically on their own leadership and management skills.
-reflect on the relationships between value based and relationship oriented leadership, and motivation, job satisfaction, and efficiency.
-challenge and stimulate a professional system, based on user orientation.
-discuss and balance the relationships between loyalty and mandate on the one hand, and room for action and local challenges on the other.
-reflect on their own way of managing, related to organization, professional knowledge, ethical and legal concerns, and the users needs.
The program consists of six modules with different main themes:
Module 1: Leadership and development of services in health and care.
Module 2: Competence development, mastery and continuous improvement
Module 3: Organising, digitalisation and collaboration
Module 4: Innovation and service design
Module 5: Management, patient safety and quality
Module 6: Health economics, control and improvement
In all BI Executive courses and programs, there is a mutual requirement for the student and the course responsible regarding the involvement of the student's experience in the planning and implementation of courses, modules and programmes. This means that the student has the right and duty to get involved with their own knowledge and practice relevance, through the active sharing of their relevant experience and knowledge.
Kurset sperrer mot MAN 3068/3069/3070/3071 Organisasjon og ledelse i kommunale helse – og sosialtjenester og MAN 3160/3161/3162/3163 Helseledelse.
Bachelor degree, corresponding to 180 credits from an accredited university, university college or similar educational institution. The applicant must be at least 25 years of age and at least four years of work experience. For applicants who have already completed a master’s degree, three years of work experience are required.
Disclaimer
Deviations in teaching and exams may occur if external conditions or unforeseen events call for this.
Bachelor degree or equivalent and 4 years of work experience. Please consult our student regulations.
| Assessments |
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Exam category: Submission Form of assessment: Submission PDF Exam/hand-in semester: Second Semester Weight: 60 Grouping: Group/Individual (1 - 3) Duration: 2 Semester(s) Exam code: MAN 51181 Grading scale: ECTS Resit: Examination when next scheduled course |
Exam category: Submission Form of assessment: Submission PDF Exam/hand-in semester: Second Semester Weight: 40 Grouping: Individual Duration: 72 Hour(s) Comment: The students are evaluated through a term paper, counting 60% of the total grade and a 72 hours individual home exam counting 40%. T All evaluations must be passed to obtain a certificate for the programme. Exam code: MAN 51182 Grading scale: ECTS Resit: Examination when next scheduled course |
All exams must be passed to get a grade in this course.
| Course code | Credit reduction |
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| MAN 3160/3161/3162/3163 | 100 |
Update: The Programme Committee Executive 08.06.22, 42/22 – IV Assessment of academic overlap between courses Deans decision: Dean Executive approves the assessment of course overlap and concludes that this revised assessment is valid. There is no overlap between MAN 3068, MAN 5118 and MAN 5170. Proposed decision should be valid from the academic year of 2019/2020.
| Activity | Duration | Comment |
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Teaching | 150 Hour(s) | |
Examination | 150 Hour(s) | |
Examination | 24 Hour(s) | |
Prepare for teaching | 76 Hour(s) | |
Student's own work with learning resources | 400 Hour(s) |
A course of 1 ECTS credit corresponds to a workload of 26-30 hours. Therefore a course of 30 ECTS credit corresponds to a workload of at least 800 hours.
The term paper is included in the degree’s independent work of degree, cf national regulation on requirements for master’s degree, equivalent to 18 ECTS credits per. programme. For the Executive Master of Management degree, the independent work of degree represents the sum of term papers from three programmes.