Master of Science in Health Care Management and Policy

The health care management and policy sectors clamour for graduates with a Master’s degree, who are able to manage a health care institution successfully, while taking into account the broader social, ethical, legal, legislative, economic and governmental context.

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Master's Programme

1 year 60 credits

Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences

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1 General Courses 39

Course	MT1	Semester	Language	Instructor	Crdt
Service Management in Health Institutions	1	sem 1	en	Paul Gemmel	6

Management of Information Systems	1	sem 1	en	Pascal Coorevits	4

Human Resources Management	1	sem 2	nl	Eva Derous	5

Health Economics	1	sem 1	nl	Dominique Vandijck	5

Legislation and financing of care facilities	1	sem 2	nl	Kristof Eeckloo	4

Financial Management	1	sem 1	nl	Jeroen Trybou	4

Patient Management	1	sem 2	nl	Dominique Vandijck	4

Change Management	1	sem 2	nl	Rik Verhaeghe	3

Entrepreneurship	1	sem 2	nl	Petra Andries	4

2 Elective Courses

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3 Master's Dissertation 15

Course	Ref	MT1	Semester	Language	Instructor	Crdt
Master's Dissertation		1	year	nl	Jeroen Trybou	15

Learning outcomes

Correctly use current (inter)national scientific literature for management and policy aspects for the optimisation of (research in) management and policy in the health care sector.

Make a scientific contribution to the further development of management and policy in the health care sector.

Process, analyse, interpret, assess and report on empirically obtained research outcomes in a correct manner.

Work out, independently and in close collaboration with other actors, a complex problem related to the management and policy domain in the health care sector using a scientific research question.

Integrate ethical and normative aspects into one’s own scientific research.

Use integrated insight into the functional domains and theories of management in the analysis and assessment of complex management and policy problems in the health care sector.

Use insights into and changes in the legislative, legal, financial and social contexts of health care in the analysis of complex management problems and policy aspects.

Critically analyse and explain complex financial-economic, healthcare-economic, organisational and policy aspects.

Analyse and implement a change process in an organisation.

Report both in writing and orally in a clear and critical manner to colleagues and non-colleagues in the management sciences

Work, independently and in a team, on a complex problem in the multidisciplinary professional field, taking into account ethical, legislative and legal basic principles.

Gauge and analyse the economic, financial, ethical and legal consequences of new developments in the field.

Couple current economic, financial, ethical and legal developments in national and international health care to policy and managerial changes.

Take a critical and informed view with respect to a complex business problem.

Exhibit an investigative attitude, scientific curiosity and an openness towards lifelong learning in order to make a contribution to the improved functioning of (an organisation in) the health care sector.

Provide a framework for developments in the health care sector and make a creative contribution to the social debate regarding the management and policy of the health care sector.

Apply, in an evidence-based manner, the principles of quality care, quality assurance and quality improvement with attention for the patient and client in health care.

Integrate the basic principles of entrepreneurship and leadership in the functioning of an organisation in the health care sector.