BMP 2900 Innovation and Organization of Healthcare Services
BMP 2900 Innovation and Organization of Healthcare Services
| BMP 2901 | |
| BMP 2902 |
The healthcare services is in a situation of transformative change. The Sector is continuously challenged by new technologies, new knowledge, and organizational change. Healthcare policies require improved patient-orientation, efficiency and coordination. In this situation healthcare managers need to know their regulatory and economic framework. In this course, the students will develop understanding of how the framework conditions of the healthcare sector enforce and/or constrain change.
Crucial priorities of the programme are dialogue, reflection and learning, and where the profound questions of management and governance are in focus. The aim is to establish a coherent link between the general framework, innovation and practical results. Students are challenged to regard Health Care as an arena of continuous change and improvement where the scientific and experience based knowledge of healthcare professionals combine with skills of management.
After the completion of the course, the students are expected to have established insight into what trigger and constrain innovation in the relations between the judicial, economic and organisational framework and day-to-day leadership, thus qualifying for new and demanding tasks.
Positions of leadership in Health Care have traditionally been the privilege of the health professions. Such is not to the same extent the case today. Real competence combined with documented and qualified education will give you a good platform for new challenges.
Qualifying for leadership position and innovation tasks requires ability to balance conflicting interests and relations. The aim with this program is that the students will become able to excersise holistic judgement in the interfaces between policy, knowledge, organization and regulation.
Overview of subjects concerns the whole programme. Conditions for innovation and change in the healthcare services will be explored in relation to the following four themes:
- Health Care Law
- The organisation and politics of Health Care
- Health economics and economic governance
- Sociology of professions
The course teaching is conducted over two terms, participants are signed up for one term at a time, the first term’s course is labelled BMP 2901 and the second term is BMP 2902.
The course is organized in 6 modules of 2-3 days’ duration, totalling 13 days or 117 lecture hours. Research methodology and guidance on the term paper work will also be included in the course modules. The teaching will consist of lectures, case studies and group work during the course modules. In the periods between the modules students will submit assignments that will be commented on by instructors.
The Distance Education Centre offers a study guide and guidance over the Internet and includes course pages, discussion groups and a voluntary assignment submission program.
The course modules will focus on practical applications in concrete tasks and challenges in health care organizations - from hospitals and municipal health care to health care performed by non-profit organizations and commercial, private health care.
Participants hand in a term paper at the end of the second term (60%) and a three-hour individual written sit down exam. (40%) The term paper may be written individually or in groups of up to three students.
Both evaluations must be completed and passed in order to have passed the course BMP 2900 Innovation and Organization of Healthcare Services 30 credits
Higher Education Entrance Qualification
| Assessments |
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Exam category: Submission Form of assessment: Written submission Weight: 60 Grouping: Group/Individual (1 - 3) Duration: 2 Semester(s) Comment: Term paper, 1-3 partisipants. Exam code: BMP 29003 Grading scale: ECTS Resit: Examination when next scheduled course |
Exam category: Submission Form of assessment: Written submission Invigilation Weight: 40 Grouping: Individual Support materials:
Duration: 3 Hour(s) Comment: Sit for a three-hour individual written exam. Exam code: BMP 29004 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.