MPH5304 · Leading and managing in public health and health care

Overview

This unit will review key leadership, management, and organisation theory and its application to healthcare settings. It will investigate the role of the manager, leadership skills, staffing issues, clinician engagement, performance management, career management, and managing change, structuring organisations for patient care, developing strategy, consumer engagement, change management, and project management.

Areas of study: Public health

Offerings

Assessment

The Handbook does not list a final examination among the assessment items. That is not a guarantee there is none.

Assessment in this unit includes hurdle assessment tasks. Failure of any hurdle assessment task may result in failure of the unit

Assessment details may change. Please refer to the assessment information in Moodle closer to the start of the teaching period.

Requisites

Learning outcomes

1. Explain the application of complex management theories in the management of health care teams and organisations.
2. Interpret the applicability of health care research findings to health care management practice.
3. Formulate practical solutions and apply management experience to solve complex health problems.
4. Demonstrate theoretical and practical approaches to leadership within health services and the importance of clinical engagement.
5. Communicate health care management solutions to specialist and non-specialist audiences.
6. Evaluate the perspectives of health care consumers and other stakeholders in health service planning.

Workload

24 hours per week including directed and self-directed learning (including any asynchronous and synchronous tasks, prescribed activities and independent work).

Student experience, not official rules. Nothing here changes what the Handbook says.