Management Challenges in Health Care
UndergraduateUAD-PUB3500OUA2025
Course information for 2025 intake
- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Enrol by
- 26 Jan 2025
- Entry requirements
- Part of a degree
- Duration
- 13 weeks
- Start dates
- 3 Feb 2025,
- 8 Sept 2025
- Price from
- $2,000
- Upfront cost
- $0
- Loan available
- FEE-HELP available
Management Challenges in Health Care
About this subject
On successful completion of this course students will be able to:
- Apply core principles and approaches for designing and managing systems to health service delivery.
- Use appropriate frameworks and tools to critique service delivery models in the broader healthcare context.
- Analyse a healthcare transformation strategy for a healthcare organisation.
- Apply inter-professional communication, collaboration and teamwork skills to a healthcare management problem.
- Module 1 – The Healthcare Landscape
- Module 2 – Healthcare Organisations as Systems
- Module 3 – Managing Transformation in Healthcare Organisations
- Module 4 – Managing Change in Healthcare Organisations
- Module 5 – Strategy Management in Healthcare Organisations
- Module 6 - Transformation Strategy and Implications
- Module 7 - Managing People in Healthcare Organisation
- Module 8 - Workforce Development and Performance
- Module 9 - Managing Services in Healthcare Organisations
- Module 10 - Managing Patient Expectations
- Module 11 - Managing Knowledge in Healthcare Organisations
- Module 12 - Knowledge Sharing in Healthcare Organisations
Healthcare organisations, in the 21st century, are being challenged by rapid changes. Due to these changes, healthcare organisations must adapt, learn and innovate. This requires a paradigm shift in the mindset and skills of healthcare leaders, managers and practitioners. In this course, you will learn management concepts, tools and techniques to address some of the daunting challenges that healthcare organisations are facing. Each module focuses on how health service managers can manage different aspects of the healthcare landscape. The course uses real-world, health-related scenarios in its materials and assessments to develop practical learning that can be applied in the workplace.
Assessment 1: Report: Case analysis. Relates to Learning Outcomes 1,3
Assessment 2: Report: Case analysis and recommendations. Relates to Learning Outcomes 1,2,3
Assessment 3: Presentation: Case analysis and recommendations. Relates to Learning Outcomes 1,2,3,4
Assessment 4: Job application: Selection criteria. Relates to Learning Outcomes 1,4
Assessment 5: Role play: Job interview- Report: Case analysis (25%)
- Report: Case analysis and recommendations (25%)
- Presentation: Case analysis and recommendations (15%)
- Job application: Selection criteria (25%)
- Role play: Job interview (10%)
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Entry requirements
Part of a degree
To enrol in this subject you must be accepted into one of the following degrees:
Core
- UAD-HSM-DEG-2025 - Bachelor of Health Service Management
Additional requirements
- Equipment requirements - Headphones or speakers (required to listen to lectures and other media). Headset, including microphone (highly recommended). Webcam (may be required for participation in virtual classrooms and/or presentations).
- Software requirements - It is essential for students to have reliable internet access in order to participate in and complete your units. MyUni is the University of Adelaide's online learning environment. MyUni provides access to various features including announcements, course materials, discussion boards and assessments.
Study load
- 0.125 EFTSL
- This is in the range of 10 to 12 hours of study each week.
Equivalent full time study load (EFTSL) is one way to calculate your study load. One (1.0) EFTSL is equivalent to a full-time study load for one year.
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Related degrees
Once you’ve completed this subject it can be credited towards one of the following courses
Bachelor of Health Service Management
UndergraduateUAD-HSM-DEG