iheed Healthcare Leadership (PgCert/ PgDip / Master's)
Clinicians are viewed as credible leaders, whether they feel so themselves or not. Indeed, many healthcare workers take on important leadership responsibilities throughout their career, managing large teams and complex organisations. However leadership and management skills are not acquired during clinical undergraduate training. The clinician is never taught how to step away from the physician-patient relationship and examine problems at a systems level.
This pragmatic course, designed and delivered by world-leading medical leaders, comprehensively closes the gap in clinician leadership competency. Whether you are a clinician seeking to move away from direct care or a senior administrator looking to take up a managerial role in a healthcare setting, this online Master of Healthcare Leadership is designed to give you a broad, interdisciplinary perspective on the changing face of healthcare.
The course provides a highly engaging, richly informative and convenient educational opportunity for busy professionals and is accessible through a dedicated state-of-the-art online learning environment. Please be advised we are seeing high levels of demand and places fill fast for each intake.
- Broaden your opportunities beyond frontline care
- Develop strong, strategic leadership capabilities
- Enhance your career and mobility options
- Gain the skills to remain relevant in an evolving health system
- Apply evidence-based thinking to a range of disciplines
- Learn from renowned healthcare leadership experts
Postgraduate Certificate (Semester 1)
Leadership and Management in Healthcare
- Understanding leadership and management
- Understanding motivation
- Influencing skills
- Giving and receiving feedback
- Assignment guidance tutorials and self-directed learning
Improving Quality and Safety in Healthcare
- Understanding safety, quality and performance in healthcare settings.
- Understanding new constructs of patient safety
- Key concepts and processes of enquiry
- Key models for developing effective improvement plans
- Working with providers and consumers iteratively to design safer and high-quality systems
Diagnosing the System in Healthcare
- Analysis underpinning service improvement
- Evidence-based systems diagnosis
- Learning, discovery and problem-solving frameworks
- Appreciative inquiry in leadership development and organisational change
- Using feedback in healthcare assessments
Postgraduate Diploma (Semester 2)
Leadership of People in Healthcare
- What is engagement?
- Benefits of engagement
- Evaluating engagement
- Vision and values
Leading Organisational Change in Healthcare
- Reactions to change – understanding optimism vs pessimism.
- Key models of change
- Overcoming resistance in yourself
- Planning to deliver change – change champions
- Understanding the viral nature of behavioural change
- Project managing change
Strategic Leadership in Healthcare
- Stakeholder analysis and bringing people together
- Helping others to interpret future impact of decisions
- Creating cross sectoral collaborations
- Framing the context for change
Master of Science (Semester 3)
Master of Science Module: Research in Healthcare Leadership
Your research-based professional project will culminate in a ‘conference ready’ poster presentation and 4,000-word article ready for submission to peer-reviewed journals.
Key Facts
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Duration (all part time):
PG Cert: 6 months
PG Dip: 12 months
Masters: 24 months
Fees: Sponsorships, scholarships and flexible payment options are available. Please speak with one of the iheed education advisors for more information.
Further details: Visit the iheed website.