Master of Business Management specialising in Health Administration

Unit Code: LEO5001

Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week

Duration: 6 weeks

Description:

Leadership emerges in new forms to meet the the challenges of organisations becoming increasingly virtual, complex, and dynamic. This unit explores the future focused practice of leadership and prepares participants to influence others ethically in emergent environments, without the reliance on formal authority, whilst providing you with the opportunities to reflect on your personal experiences of leadership and further develop your leadership practice.

Unit Code: LEO5002

Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week

Duration: 6 weeks

Description:

In the age of disruption, competitive landscapes become increasingly inter-connected, digital, and dynamic. To remain sustainable an organisation’s business model and internal processes including operations, marketing, and information management, must keep pace with environmental change. This unit prepares students to focus on the realisation of strategies in adaptive, aligned, and agile organisations. It will also provide opportunities to develop your understanding of strategy and business model design for agile organisations.

Unit Code: LEO5003

Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week

Duration: 6 weeks

Description:

Entrepreneurs (and organisational intrapreneurs) who embrace innovation can create and commercialise new technology and monetise intellectual property, setting their organisations apart in a competitive environment, even re-defining an industry. Students will explore the adoption and impact of technological advances, especially artificial intelligence and digital transformation, that prepares you for the challenge of innovation. This unit will build on foundational models and concepts of innovation and creativity, and you will undertake a critical review of your collective experience of ideation, creativity, and design thinking, that extend your ability to contribute to organisational innovation.

Unit Code: LEO5004

Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week

Duration: 6 weeks

Description:

Rapid changes in competitive models and capital markets create new challenges for organisations to manage the resources necessary to compete, particularly financial resources. To support on-going organisational performance and to inform decisions for organisational transformation, the organisation’s financial management and resource utilisation must align with the organisation’s strategic intent. Building on foundational concepts and a critical review of resource allocation and control systems, the unit will extend your practical understanding of financial management.

Unit Code: MPH5301

Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week

Duration: 6 weeks

Description:

‘Health systems and policy’ provides health service managers and public health practitioners a comprehensive understanding of the major components of national health systems, and how health policy is continually adapted to reform these systems. Over 6 weekly modules, you will explore relevant policy theories, stakeholders and policy actors and processes that address major health policy challenges. Each module includes an overview of the relevant concepts and resources; guided readings; and online, instructor-moderated discussions of applied issues with your peers.

Unit Code: MPH5302

Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week

Duration: 6 weeks

Description:

Biostatistics is the science of describing, summarising and analysing health-related data. ‘Biostatistics: concepts and applications’ introduces you to biostatistics as applied to public health and management studies. You will acquire the technical knowledge to analyse and interpret data on a descriptive and bivariate level, covering topics that include: classification of health data; summarizing data using simple statistical methods and graphical presentation; sampling distributions, quantifying uncertainty in results from a sample; statistical distributions; comparing two/more groups/methods using confidence intervals and hypothesis tests (p-values); assessing the association between an outcome and an exposure using the chi-squared test; risk comparisons (RR & OR); prediction of an event or identifying risk factors for an event of interest where the event is measured on a continuous scale or a binary scale (yes/no); sample size calculations.

Unit Code: MPH5308

Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week

Duration: 6 weeks

Description:

Health systems, whether in developing or developed countries, must continually adapt to emerging challenges, which is why health sector reform is an ongoing process. ‘Developing health systems’ contextualises these challenges. By assessing a recent case study of health care reform, you will have the opportunity to explore alternative conceptual frameworks for analysing health care systems, with an emphasis on the “control knobs framework”, which describes the key levers of a health care system, and how these levers work to influence outcomes of interest such as equity, cost, financial risk protection and quality of care.

Unit Code: MPH5318

Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week

Duration: 6 weeks

Description:

The provision of effective healthcare is an essential component of contemporary society. As the average life expectancy increases, so does the expectations and demand of healthcare. These community expectations on healthcare delivery and demand have greater financial costs. Coupled with advances in health technology result in challenging social and financial implications.

Students in this unit will examine the basic accounting, financial reporting, budgeting and financial business planning concepts applicable to the healthcare sector. Learners will examine and apply how such principles and techniques are used by healthcare professionals to aid strategic, operational and service delivery decision making.

Unit Code: MPH5316

Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week

Duration: 6 weeks

Description:

Health care improvement science is crucial for translating new knowledge into practice and delivering the best possible patient care. ‘Healthcare improvement and learning systems’ provides students with the skills and knowledge to develop and implement health care improvement projects in clinical settings and develop solutions for gaps in health care through considered data management and stakeholder engagement. You will learn about translating and mobilising new knowledge and engage with community and service users to conduct healthcare improvement projects and lead innovation, while exploring key concepts that include change management strategies, strategies to enable knowledge sharing, data collection, and managing information systems.

Unit Code: MPH5317

Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week

Duration: 6 weeks

Description:

‘Healthcare and economic management’ explores the complexities of care delivery in the evolving world of health services. Healthcare delivery and funding are intertwined, which means that fluency in health economics is essential. In this unit, students will explore concepts of resource allocation and analyse and compare funding for competing health needs. It will also include critical analysis of the impact of innovation and how this is incorporated into current health care funding.

Unit Code: LEO5130

Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week

Duration: 6 weeks

Description:

A key challenge for organisations and leaders is the implementation of system-wide changes to fundamental processes, products, services, culture and/or ways of doing business. Digital transformation is a key example of these major change initiatives confronting many organisations. Current conditions within organisations include volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity therefore you need to be increasingly adept at managing and implementing change. Different approaches to implementing and managing transformation, including planned change approaches, emergent change approaches and agile are introduced, explored and applied.

Unit Code: LEO5113

Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week

Duration: 6 weeks

Description:

This capstone unit focuses on applied research and is linked with industries and businesses who provide real-world projects to students to work on. The projects will present a real-world problem and require you to to solve it virtually, in an online learning environment.

This course will enable you to integrate your leadership capabilities, professional skills and technical expertise into a meaningful experience that will consolidate and extend your learning in the program.

IPA will be external focus. IPB students will focus on their own organisation or choose one that they have access to.

Unit Code: LEO5114

Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week

Duration: 6 weeks

Description:

This capstone unit focuses on applied research and is linked with industries and businesses who provide real-world projects to students to work on. The projects will present a real-world problem and require you to to solve it virtually, in an online learning environment.

This course will enable you to integrate your leadership capabilities, professional skills and technical expertise into a meaningful experience that will consolidate and extend your learning in the program.

IPA will be external focus. IPB students will focus on their own organisation or choose one that they have access to.

Unit Code: MGO5992

Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week

Duration: 6 weeks

Description:

Overall, this unit will enhance your value to potential employers, and help you become successful, and assist with your long-term career goals and aspirations. The focus is on building your capacity to drive and support your own professional development. Self-reflection is central to being a successful leader and this unit builds upon your capacity to achieve your career goals and will develop your ability to market yourself effectively.