2016/17 Taught Postgraduate Programme Catalogue
PGDip Health Informatics
Programme code: | PGD-HINF-FT | UCAS code: | |
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Duration: | 9 Months | Method of Attendance: | Full Time |
Programme manager: | Dr Susan Clamp | Contact address: | s.clamp@leeds.ac.uk |
Total credits: 120
Entry requirements:
Academic entry requirements
The programme is academically rigorous and most students are expected to have an upper second-class honours degree. Applicants with other qualifications may be accepted if they can demonstrate suitable professional experience.
English language requirements
IELTS - overall score of 6.5 with no element less than 6.0
TOEFL iBT - overall score of 92 with the reading and listening elements no less than 21; speaking element no less than 23, and the writing element no less than 22.
School/Unit responsible for the parenting of students and programme:
Leeds Institute of Health Sciences, School of Medicine
Examination board through which the programme will be considered:
School of Medicine Postgraduate Programmes Examination Board
Programme specification:
At the end of the programme students should be able to:
- Articulate the contribution that health informatics can make to improving patient care and demonstrate an understanding of informatics theory, concepts and practice.
- Apply a systems thinking approach to problem solving and research within health care management.
- Identify opportunities for process and care pathway innovation, be able to quantify benefits and develop successful strategies to effect change.
- Appreciate the significance of emerging technology for transforming health care and demonstrate practical skills in developing innovative technology solutions.
- Apply a range of project management techniques to a health informatics context and demonstrate an understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of the project planning and control process.
- Plan and manage the strategic use and development of health care information and information systems to support the transformation of health care and its management.
- Demonstrate an ability to both understand and work within health care domains in a variety of contexts. This may include systems design, leadership, research, public health, primary care, acute care, and international health.
- Take a pro-active and self-reflective role in understanding the health domain, including being able to critically and creatively identify and evaluate potential solutions against political, economic, social and technological constraints.
- Make a strong personal contribution to leading innovation in health care.
The programme will:
Take students who are already technologically capable, equip them with a range of advanced skills and a deep understanding of the health domain in order to produce professionals capable of using innovative technology to make a significant contribution to improving health care. The programme is distinctive in specifically focussing its recruitment on computing and technical graduates. The programme is unique in taking a strong information systems perspective - building a set of advanced transferable skills in areas such as soft systems, process modelling and strategy development and bringing these to focus on the health domain.
The Yorkshire Centre for Health Informatics has a strong regional and national reputation and is actively engaged delivering training, skills, research and development to the NHS, Connecting for Health and a network of national and international software suppliers. It is well placed to both listen to and inform the informatics agenda for the NHS and students on the Masters programme will be actively involved in this process. Much of YCHI's teaching is also delivered to professionals in the form of master classes and CPD events and there is an established network of employers keen to recruit the students and support their masters projects.
The programme will provide (through cross institute working) a range of health modules which offer individual students an opportunity to tailor their degree on areas of special interest ranging from specific technologies such as mobile medicine to specific domains such as international health. The following issues also help to make the programme distinctive:
- The University of Leeds is a Russell group university
- Leeds Teaching Hospital Trust is the largest hospital trust in the UK
- The City of Leeds is the location for many of the Department of Health organisations
- Leeds is a major population centre and is central within the UK and accessible by road, rail and air
Year1 - View timetable
[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment]
Compulsory modules:
Candidates will be required to study the following compulsory modules:
YCHI5010M | Informatics in Health Care | 15 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
YCHI5020M | Systems Thinking in Health Care | 15 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
YCHI5030M | Process Modelling, Benefits and Change | 15 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
YCHI5070M | Mobile Health | 15 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) |
Optional modules:
Candidates will be required to study 60 credits from the following optional modules:
MEDR5200M | Health Research Methods | 15 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
MEDR5260M | Introduction to Health Economics | 15 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
NUFF5505M | Programmatic Responses to Key Issues in International Health | 15 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
YCHI5015M | The Legal, Ethical and Professional Considerations in Healthcare Data Research | 15 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
YCHI5035M | Clinical Knowledge Management and Decision Support Systems | 15 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
YCHI5040M | Health Informatics Strategy | 15 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
YCHI5045M | Statistics for Health Sciences | 15 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
YCHI5050M | Project Management in Health Informatics | 15 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
YCHI5055M | Health Data Analytics and Visualisation | 15 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
YCHI5060M | Designing Future e-Health Systems | 15 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
YCHI5080M | International e-Health | 15 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) |
Candidates may also choose up to 30 credits from Faculty of Medicine and Health taught postgraduate modules, subject to approval by the Programme Director.
Last updated: 19/08/2016
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