2015/16 Taught Postgraduate Programme Catalogue

PGCert Health Management, Planning and Policy

Total credits: 60

Entry requirements:

- Candidates will normally be graduates with a good honours degree or equivalent in a related subject.
- Extensive work experience in health services or health systems may exceptionally constitute an alternative basis for admission.
- Given the competitive nature of this course, preference will be given to candidates with a minimum of two years work experience in areas related to health policy, planning or management.

School/Unit responsible for the parenting of students and programme:

Institute of Health Sciences and Public Health Research, School of Medicine

Examination board through which the programme will be considered:

School of Medicine Examination Board

Programme specification:

The programme focuses on health management, planning and policy in developing countries and addresses the needs of health professionals, planners and managers working or having responsibility for the quality of health care in low or middle-income countries. These include senior, regional/state and district planners and managers; staff from donor agencies, NGOs and international organisations; and trainers from education, training and research institutions.

The programme will:

- provide an international learning environment within which students drawn from a variety of professional backgrounds around the world benefit and learn from their collective professional and cultural experiences.
- offer opportunities to develop the ability to think analytically; a capacity for independent learning; an awareness of the importance of and opportunities for continuing professional development; and the capability to complete a challenging, extended piece of independent study.
- offer flexibility, enabling students to attain high levels of professional skill whilst also pursuing individual study interests in a learning environment where research informs teaching with optional module choices and dissertation opportunities reflect shared student and staff research interests.

And also:
- provide a multidisciplinary, critically analytical and practice-based approach to the main challenges and issues in management, planning and policy which face the providers of heath and health-related services in developing and emerging countries.
- particularly focus on the challenges arising from the local context of Africa, Asia, Latin America and areas of the Middle East.
- introduce the essential leaning skills for postgraduate level study within a structured framework with particular emphasis on the challenges facing those returning to study.
- teach the essential skills required to improve existing and build new health services, programmes and related management systems to improve the public health of the communities amongst whom the participants work with emphasis on descriptive epidemiology and statistics and public health interventions.
- build upon the core skills and knowledge acquired early in the programme by choosing areas of study from the list of optional modules in specialist fields of public health, planning and management.
- introduce the concept of the Personal Development Portfolio which strongly encourages a reflective approach to learning and can form the basis of career-long independent learning and continued professional development.
- develop a capacity for independent learning and an awareness of the importance of continued professional development.
- (for MA and PG Dip) offer the opportunity to plan, initiate, execute and complete a substantial piece of independent research, in the form of the dissertation, within a supportive framework which provides specific research training and preparation for the dissertation.

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Compulsory modules:

Candidates will be required to study the following compulsory modules:

Candidates are eligible for the award if they pass the 2 x 30 credit compulsory modules.

Last updated: 16/04/2015

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