With our MSc, you will explore leadership in a global context, gaining knowledge and skills applicable to all healthcare systems. The programme encompasses leadership approaches and challenges from across the healthcare spectrum – helping you visualise how your current or future professional role functions within a larger, complex system.
You can look forward to developing the capabilities required to enhance both your own practice and those of whom you work with. You will learn how to reflect on your practice, personality, and approach to become a more effective leader and manager.
The contemporary nature of our programme also enables students to incorporate up-to-date research in their studies and identify current challenges and opportunities in the industry.
As the course is part time, working professionals can immediately apply what they learn to their current organisation, while still earning their degree in two year
Exceptional leadership in healthcare has a vital role to play in the face of growing global health challenges – from aging populations, to financial austerity, to disease outbreaks.
Upon completion of this distance learning course, you’ll hold the skills and understanding needed to serve effectively within management in healthcare, with the ability to challenge both yourself and others to perform to their highest potential.
With a globally relevant education and the ability to communicate, delegate, and influence across all forms of healthcare teams, you can explore a career anywhere in the world.
You’ll be able to make a positive impact on the industry and your community through a variety of roles, such as:
- Healthcare provider leadership (e.g., hospital management; primary care manager)
- Clinical leader with primary, secondary or tertiary healthcare
- Healthcare commissioner leadership
- Healthcare policy maker (e.g., local government)
- Leadership within professional or regulatory bodies
Built upon a model of competency development, our MSc in Healthcare Leadership will help you learn leadership theories and frameworks at the leading edge of the discipline.
You’ll learn how to adopt a diligent, systematic, and evidence-based approach to your practice through the transformative concepts introduced during your studies.
As a student of the course, you can expect to:
- Explore leadership as a dynamic and contestable concept
- Engage in critical self-reflection and the impact of self on others
- Learn how to conduct insightful and informed decision making
- Build knowledge of the system and policy context in which healthcare leadership exists
- Gain an in-depth appreciation of the rational, emotional, and political aspects of changing services and practice
- Recognise the necessity of critical and systematic enquiry and continuous learning in and through action
All assessment for the course is based on coursework and submitted online. There are no exams.
Your performance on the course will be assessed through a range of methods, such as:
- Guided online discussions/activities
- Online lectures and seminars
- Online tutorials
- Critiques and feedback from your tutor
- Critical self-reflection and independent study
You’ll also be asked to complete a variety of written assessments. Some examples include:
- A professional development plan focused on enhancing leadership skills and based on established approaches to learning
- Commentary on a primary research paper related to quality improvement
- Analysis of an example patient safety incident
- A reflective account of the process of change, with reference to established theories
Enrollment Cycles
- January 2024
- May 2024
- September 2024