Graduate Certificate in Health Service Management
Program Overview
The Graduate Certificate in Health Service Management equips professionals with advanced training in contemporary health service management practices. It offers a pathway to higher-level degrees and provides a choice of elective units to tailor the program to individual interests. Delivered primarily through distance learning, the program features seminars led by experienced health service executives, exposing students to real-world case studies.
Program Outline
Degree Overview:
The Graduate Certificate in Health Service Management is an advanced course of study designed to equip health service management professionals from both the public and private sectors with rigorous training focused on contemporary issues in professional health service management practice. The program provides a pathway to the Graduate Diploma in Health Service Management, the Master of Health Service Management, and the Master of Health Information Management.
Objective:
- Provide working professionals in health service management with training focused on contemporary issues of professional health service management practice.
Outline:
Choice of Elective Units
Students can choose from the following elective units:
- Research Methods in Health Management
- Health Management Research Plan
- Health Management Research Thesis
- Delivering Integrated Care
- Evidence Informed Decision Making
- Foundations of Integrated Care
- Health Ethics, Law and Governance
- Health Finance, Economics and Accounting
- Healthcare Organisational Behaviour
- Healthcare Systems, Safety and Quality
- Managing Complex Adaptive Healthcare Organisations
- Leading and Managing Healthcare Organisations
- Health Ontologies, Terminologies, and Classifications
- Data and Business Decision Making
Teaching:
- Primarily delivered off-campus (distance learning)
- Non-mandatory, supporting intensive seminars in Sydney