BMP 2410 Health Care Management Skills
BMP 2410 Health Care Management Skills
| Course code | Semester |
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BMP 2411 | 2022 Autumn |
BMP 2412 | 2023 Spring |
The foundation course Skills in Health Management focuses on management and administration in various parts of the Norwegian health service. The Norwegian health service is a labour-intensive and complex sector consisting of highly qualified employees, strongly characterized by profession orientation, high technology with many self-confident and demanding patients and users. The foundation course Skills in Health Management has a special focus on the challenges faced by middle managers and shall provide a sound basis for creating a common meeting ground between the various disciplines within the field of health, health professionals, technology and patients/users with a focus on creating a better health service characterized by good quality and service.
Skills in Health Management provides the foundation for moving into management positions in health and care services. The students will learn basic knowledge and skills in healthcare management (leadership and administration). The course is a publicly recognized bachelor programme which will give students 30 ECTS Credits.
Students shall acquire basic knowledge in management skills and administration. They shall be familiar with relevant terms and concepts, dilemmas, theories and practical tools within the field of management as applied to a relevant health organization. For the purpose of this course the term health organization is being defined as any somatic or psychiatric hospital, municipal health service, health services provided under the auspices of a voluntary organization, private health organizations and various social services (such as detox facilities, child protective services, rehabilitation) This course shall have a future-oriented and solution-oriented perspective by focusing on challenging traditional rule-oriented and bureaucratic attitudes and behaviour patterns.
Upon completion of the course students shall have acquired the competence required to be able to take on a goal-oriented approach in their executive positions and relate in a good way to different workers, both skilled and unskilled. The course focuses on enabling the students with regard to developing their own personal anti-authoritarian leadership style focusing on the fact that each employee is the most important resource that the organization has. Upon completion of the course, students are expected to work efficiently as team leaders, make rational decisions, show good
Judgment in difficult cases pertaining to personnel and HR matters and be able to participate in change processes and development projects in an appropriate manner. Students shall also be able to facilitate for a systematic and goal-oriented competence development for their co-workers on a practical level.
The programme is founded on a perspective on humanity based on ethical values whose central focus is the best interests of patients and users. Students shall be trained in exhibiting a critical and reflective approach in relation to established systems and routines and awareness-raising with regard to continuous improvement and so-called best practice. The fact that the employees are the most important resource makes the students committed to always develop attitudes focusing on opportunities and possibilities and solutions linked to what can be done concretely to ensure that the employee succeed in their job. Managers and middle managers in the health service should develop practical skills and a conceptual framework in connection with relevant economic theory and relevant economic methods. Management is both about making the right decisions and about steering towards adopted goals, both necessary and useful in job performance. Examples of relevant topics will be "economic language", resource management, goal management and circular economy.
The overview of topics applies to the entire course. See additional information for material on each gathering.
Organizational theories and management
Health management
Personnel management
Finance management
Strategic change
Co-creation of innovation with users and patients
Strategy implementation
The foundation course Skills in Health Management, BMP 2410, which gives students 30 ECTS credits, is completed over 2 semesters. The participants will be signed up for tuition each semester. The course consisting of lectures is entitled BMP 2411 for the first semester and BMP 2412 for the second semester.
The program includes tuition pertaining to methods and advice and guidance with regard to the project dissertation. This is being provided in connection with the gatherings. The academic scheme consists of lectures, web-based education, cases group work in which the students in the interim periods between gatherings will be expected to submit assignments and receive feedback from the teacher responsible for correcting their submitted work.
The gatherings focus on the use and application of the academic methods and materials in relation to concrete challenges and requirements within a health organization. This applies to hospitals as well as the municipal health service as well as health services provided by private health organizations on a non-profit basis and commercially run private health services
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.
Higher Education Entrance Qualification
Disclaimer
Deviations in teaching and exams may occur if external conditions or unforeseen events call for this.
Admission to the foundation course Skills in Health Management, which is a publicly recognized course at upper secondary/higher education level. Work experience from the health sector is an advantage.
| Assessments |
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Exam category: Submission Form of assessment: Written submission Weight: 30 Grouping: Individual Duration: 5 Hour(s) Exam code: BMP 24101 Grading scale: ECTS Resit: Examination when next scheduled course |
Exam category: Submission Form of assessment: Written submission Weight: 30 Grouping: Individual Duration: 5 Hour(s) Comment: The second semester ends with a five-hour written individual home exam in Personnel Management and Finance Management. Exam code: BMP 24102 Grading scale: ECTS Resit: Examination when next scheduled course |
Exam category: Submission Form of assessment: Written submission Weight: 40 Grouping: Group/Individual (1 - 3) Duration: 2 Semester(s) Comment: In addition students are required to hand in a project dissertation after the second semester in which the students themselves are allowed to select a topic within the curriculum. Dissertation length: Max 25 pages excluding appendices. The project dissertation shall be completed individually or in groups of up to 3 individuals. Exam code: BMP 24103 Grading scale: ECTS Resit: Examination when next scheduled course |
All exams must be passed to get a grade in this course.
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.
All exams must be completed and passed in order for students to have the course BMP 2410 Skills in Health Management approved and be awarded the 30 ECTS credits.