C5I Graduate Certificate in Health Service Management
Program Overview
The Graduate Certificate in Health Service Management equips professionals in the public and private health sectors with advanced management skills. Taught by leading health executives, the program focuses on contemporary management practices, ethical decision-making, and critical inquiry. Students can choose from a range of units to tailor their studies to their career goals.
Program Outline
Degree Overview:
Overview:
The Graduate Certificate in Health Service Management is an advanced course of study designed to provide management professionals from both the public and private health sectors with training focussed on issues of contemporary professional management practice. Some of Australia's leading senior health service executives teach into the units. Students are therefore exposed to a level of unparalleled experience and real-world case-studies. The course is a pathway to the Graduate Diploma in Health Service Management, the Master of Health Service Management and the Master of Health Information Management.
Objectives:
The Graduate Certificate in Health Service Management is designed to provide health service management professionals from both the public and private sectors with rigorous training focussed on issues of contemporary professional health service management practice.
Learning Outcomes:
Work professionally and ethically in situations of difficult moral problems, by abiding by the relevant health management codes of conduct. Demonstrate critical, investigative and creative skills for decision-making and entrepreneurship, reflecting adaptive knowledge and skills to suit various contexts and stakeholders in health management. Engage in critical inquiry of current and future challenges related to the delivery of health management considering social, environmental, political and economic factors. Demonstrate a range of decision-making and leadership skills in health and wellbeing, problem solving, change and conflict management; accounting for and respecting cultural diversity and the influence of the health management discipline. Demonstrate superior communication skills, written or oral, to explain and creatively analyse theoretical propositions, methodologies and conclusions in every day and formal health management contexts. Evaluate health organisational data and relevant numerical information to create high-level reports and statistics appropriate for health management discipline. Apply knowledge of foundational and contemporary health management theory, principles and processes, and reflect on their efficacy in current practice.
Outline:
Course Structure:
Choose from the following:
- BAA722 Research Methods in Health Management
- BAA737 Health Management Research Plan
- BAA738 Health Management Research Thesis
- BAA750 Delivering Integrated Care
- BAA751 Evidence Informed Decision Making
- BAA752 Foundations of Integrated Care
- BAA753 Health Ethics, Law and Governance
- BAA754 Health Finance, Economics and Accounting
- BAA755 Healthcare Organisational Behaviour
- BAA756 Healthcare Systems, Safety and Quality
- BAA757 Managing Complex Adaptive Healthcare Organisations
- BAA758 Leading and Managing Healthcare Organisations
- BAA760 Health Ontologies, Terminologies, and Classifications
- BEA674 Data and Business Decision Making
