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Department Health Studies

Management for Health Professionals

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Key subject areas

The content of the Master’s certificate programme “Management for Health Professionals” focuses on the following subject areas and aims to acquire or improve skills in areas relevant to the professional field of healthcare management:

  • Personnel management and leadership in the healthcare sector
  • Management and deployment of staff in the respective healthcare facilities
  • Crisis and conflict management
  • Analysing and improving business processes in the healthcare sector
  • Monitoring, ensuring and improving quality and organisation in healthcare facilities
  • Application of quality assurance measures based on models and concepts in the healthcare sector
  • Cooperation with other healthcare facilities, organisational units and professional groups
  • Acquisition of a socio-medical understanding
  • Deepening scientific expertise in the health sciences
  • Becoming a manager in the healthcare sector

Become a manager in the healthcare sector

The educational objectives of the course are to deepen knowledge of management tasks in the healthcare sector and to qualify future graduates to assume responsibility for the quality of care and the measures taken in the respective institution. This includes monitoring, ensuring and improving the quality of care and organisation, managing and deploying staff, organising material resources and monitoring the use of material resources as well as cooperating with other facilities, organisational units and professional groups.

Note

“Management for Health Professionals” is recognised in accordance with Section 65a of the Austrian Healthcare and Nursing Act (GuKG) in conjunction with Annex 7 II. Z.8 of the Health and Nursing Teaching and Management Tasks Ordinance (GuK-LFV) as training for management tasks in accordance with § 17 GuKG (*subject to approval by the competent bodies and the BMSGPK).

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