Intended learning outcomes (knowledge, skills and competences to be developed by the students):

General aims:

• stimulate the development of systematic thought and analytical attitude, enabling the student to perform a holistic analysis and to solve, in a team, the management problems that arise in the context of health organizations and and technological development, creating a proactive cultura to enhance the excellence of healthcare providade to populaitons. 

Specific aims:

• stimulate the interest in healthcare management in its systemic perspectives, both local and individual;
• promote the use of management tools in clinical practice;
• develop social competences to be used as passive management instruments;
• promote innovation as an agent that models the future and the modernization of institutions;
• learn the basic principles of management of change in healthcare.

Syllabus: 

Introduction to Health Management:

• Concepts and Principles of Clinical Governance;
• Introduction to Health Systems and Policies;
• Organization and economic context of the NHS Management. 

Health Management:

• Economics and Health Policy;
• Health Care Integration;
• Health in an International Context;
• Financing and Budget Management;
• Health Organization Management;
• Hospital Resource Management.

Continuous Improvement in Health:

• Evidence Based Medicine;
• Decision Support Systems;
• Clinical Indicators, Results and Value;
• management of Information; innovation; Clinical Risk; Quality.

Innovation in Health:

• Management of resistance to change;
• Problems as innovation opportunities;
• Generation of innovation, support and experimentation;
• Innovation Scale-up;
• Digital Health;
• Digital Citizen;
• The system as an ally of change

Social Management Skills (Soft-Skills):

• Leadership and Teamwork;
• Conflict and Change Management;
• Project management;
• Career Management.