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| Annual Tuition Fee: | ≈ € 7,568 - ≈ € 12,333 (non-EEA) | ||
| Location: | Guildford / United Kingdom / View location on map ▾ Hide location on map ▴ | ||
| Duration: | 12 months | Start Date: | September |
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| Languages: | English | ||
Location of University of Surrey
The programme aims to provide a high quality, vocational education which is intellectually rigorous and up-to-date as well as relevant to the needs of existing and future managers, executives and clinicians in the healthcare sector. The programme has a business management orientation related to the service sector and draws upon a range of cognate areas of study to explain and analyse the sector.
The objectives of the programme are to provide the opportunity for clinicians, managers and others to direct their education toward the field of advanced management; to provide an education that is both intellectually challenging and directly relevant to the field of healthcare management; to deliver an educational programme which is designed to provide participants with concepts, models, techniques and examples relevant to healthcare management, which will enable them to improve the provision of care to patients.
The Health Care Management programme applies the School of Management's expertise in the service sector to the field of health. There are extensive links with healthcare through the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences and the Health Economics Group within the Department of Economics.
Contents
This programme consists of six compulsory modules, two elective modules from a range of six modules, and a dissertation.
Compulsory Modules
Resources and Operational Management in Health Care
This module provides a detailed learning course focused upon the resource concepts of managing people, information and services. These concepts are operationalised into the management of a health service unit.
Financial Management
This module provides the foundations for understanding, analysing and interpreting financial information, and enables students to apply accounting principles and financial theory across management disciplines and organisations.
Health Care Quality Management
Having studied Resources and Operational Management in Health Care, this module develops the notion of a quality service in healthcare settings. It focuses on management as a means to achieving quality standards and patient satisfaction.
Health Care Systems, Structure and Functions
This module explores the complex management and administrative demands of a modern health system. Its role in the programme is to apply the general management principles, learned in other prescribed modules, to healthcare.
Organisational Behaviour
This module integrates the study of forms, structures and processes of organisations with the human aspects of psychology at work. The module provides an insight into the fundamentals on which organisations are built and provides analytical processes for understanding behaviour at work and managerial processes.
Research Methods
Introducing the process of research project formulation and the key elements of research design, this module should prepare students to design and execute their research study for their dissertation in a systematic and scientific manner.
Elective Modules
Analysis and Integration of Health Information
Evidence-based practice is becoming more important in health services. Therefore, the management of information is perceived as an important part of healthcare management.
Education and the Development of Health Care Professionals
An issue in the healthcare systems is that of succession planning and developing a commitment to lifelong learning. This module attempts to address the issue of educating managers for the future.
Healthcare Philosophy and Ethics
This module is designed to enable students to inform their decision-making processes in the light of medico-legal and ethical implications and to develop best practice accordingly.
Project Appraisal
For the successful development of healthcare programmes, projects must be planned carefully and fully appraised for their costs and benefits. Cost'benefit analysis (CBA) is a multidisciplinary subject linked with both economics and finance, and is a valuable tool in decision making.
Other elective modules include Service Quality and Customer Satisfaction Management, and Strategy.
IELTS
You are normally required to take an English Proficiency Test.
Most European Universities recognise the IELTS test.
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Applicants should usually hold a bachelors degree (UK Lower Second/2.2 or above) or equivalent qualification from a recognised British/overseas university. Every applicant is assessed individually on their own merit. Higher level professional qualifications may also be accepted. Relevant work experience could be an additional benefit where applicants have not reached the standard entry requirements, although it is not an admissions requirement for this particular degree programme.
Candidates for whom English is not their first language will normally be required to have taken an English language test and achieved a score of either TOEFL 550 or above, IELTS 6.0 or above, or Cambridge Advanced Certificate in English Grade C or above. This test must have been taken within two years prior to the start of the programme you are applying for.
The School also assists students whose first language is not English through close cooperation with the University£s Language Centre.
Language Proficiency
| Cambridge English: Advanced (CAE): | Grade C (Score: 60) |
Accreditation
The University of Surrey School of Management is unique as the only business school in the world to hold simultaneous accreditation from the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB), Association of MBAs (AMBA) and the United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO). MBA and Tourism students can be assured of the quality of their programme and the School as recognized by these awards.
The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) is an international body which assesses business schools on the quality of their programmes and operational management. AACSB International accreditation represents the highest standard of achievement for business schools, worldwide.
Institutions that earn accreditation confirm their commitment to quality and continuous improvement through a rigorous and comprehensive peer review.
AACSB International accreditation is the hallmark of excellence in management education. AACSB International accreditation assures stakeholders that business schools:
* Manage resources to achieve a vibrant and relevant mission.
* Advance business and management knowledge through faculty scholarship.
* Provide high-calibre teaching of quality and current curricula.
* Cultivate meaningful interaction between students and a qualified faculty.
* Produce graduates who have achieved specified learning goals.
An AACSB accredited business school gives an assurance that it is amongst the best in the world.
The Association of MBAs (AMBA) accreditation is widely recognised as the global standard for MBA programmes. The association has acted as an advocate for MBA programmes around the world since 1967 and assesses business schools and their post-experience management programmes against rigorous criteria. These criteria include:
* The institution offering an MBA should have a clear strategy and mission, explicitly expressed and regularly updated. It will have a clear understanding of the market for its products.
* Staff should be credible in terms of their academic qualifications, their ability to teach business at postgraduate level, the quality of their research and the extent of their business contacts and consultancy activities.
* As the MBA is a post-experience, postgraduate degree, students admitted onto an accredited MBA must have a minimum of three years work experience, with the cohort averaging 5 years experience.
* The curriculum should be generalist in nature and must cover the core business skills: marketing, the economic and legal environment of a business, accounting and quantitative methods, finance, organisational theory, interpersonal skills, information technology, and the processes and practices of management.
The School of Management has a long association with the tourism industry and a worldwide reputation for excellence in tourism education. It was the first institution in the UK to receive UNWTO TedQual certification for both its undergraduate and postgraduate tourism programmes.
The UNWTO TedQual certification system contributes to the quality and efficiency of tourism education training and research. It proposes a methodology and voluntary standards with universal scope to more clearly define the quality of tourism education systems. The UNWTO TedQual certification system is a quality assurance system for tourism education, training and research. The specific aims of the UNWTO TedQual certification system are:
* Establish a quality standard for tourism education and training systems.
* Smooth the way towards greater pedagogic productivity in tourism.
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