MA/MS in Health care management

General Description: Objective(s) of a study programme: To educate highly qualified management specialists who would be able to manage the activities of health care organisations and their divisions, use modern information technologies, apply employee motivation methods and tools, analyse the economic indicators of the activities of health care organisations, and form health policy and the strategic goals of the health care system and organisations by demonstrating leadership and communication skills. Learning outcomes: A1. Is able to formulate strategic goals for health care system and health care organisations, forecast the necessary recourses for their implementation, and ensure the implementation of selected strategies. A2. Is able to apply the instruments of service management and marketing, analyse the satisfaction of health care users, to develop and implement the health care marketing program. A3. Is able to apply the knowledge of health ethics and law, to apply the documents regulating the health care system in the process of health care organisation management. B1. Is able to formulate scientific problem, to select or create research methodology, to conduct the research independently. B2. Is able to analyse, synthesize data needed for scientific and practical activities, to use information systems and databases. B3. Is able to base the results of scientific research both orally and in written, to provide arguments for healthcare management decisions, to find and integrate new findings of management and health care science research. C1. Is able to become a leader in rallying institutions and communities to evaluate the needs for public health care and implementation of qualitative change. C 2. Is able to apply the principles and competencies of health care policy, quality management, evaluate the need for public health care, and determine priority problems and the means of their solution. D1. Is able to plan, organize and coordinate the work of healthcare organisations and their departments. D2. Is able effectively, fluently and persuasively communicate in oral and written form in at least one foreign language, to participate in discussions on the topic of health care management. E1. Is able to think systematically, generate and critically evaluate new ideas, to initiate and manage new health care projects; understands ethical responsibility of ones actions and their consequences. E2. Is able to apply management theories and concepts systematically and creatively in the management of health care systems and health care organisations. Activities of teaching and learning: Exam, group work, individual work, preparation and presentation of literature review, oral illustrated report, seminar, referee, test, case analysis, problem solving task, practice in real workplaces, Erasmus+ exchange program activities. Methods of assessment of learning achievements: Cumulative assessment (individual work, paper, exercise settlement, master's research report, colloquium, control work). The final grade sums up the grades of midterms and exams. Framework: Study subjects (modules), practical training: Health Care Services’ Ethics and Law Research Methodology and Management Health Care Organization and Management Management Theory Health Information Management Management of Sociocultural Systems Public Health Assessment Research Project 1 Health Policy and Strategic Management Managerial Economics Service Management Primary Health Care and Community Health Children and Teenage Health Risk Management of Health Care Organization Research Project 2 Health Care Quality Management Organizational Culture Development Methods of Strategic Management Personnel Management Methodology Management of Organizational Changes Innovation Strategies Master Thesis Specialisations: - Optional courses: - Distinctive features of a study programme: - Access to professional activity or further study: Access to professional activity: Access to further study: Doctoral studies