Master's Degree in Healthcare Management

Academic structure

Module I: Models and health systems

• Framework
• Public health
• Health planning
• Financing and purchasing services
• Health economics

Module II: Managing healthcare organisations

• Applied organisation theory
• Strategic planning and business planning
• Financial management, finance and assets
• Human resource management
• Physical resource management and technology
• Purchasing and supply management
• Management of general services
• Technologies and information systems
• Public sector management
• Private sector management

Module III: The management of healthcare processes

• Management of knowledge businesses
• Clinical management. Information systems
• Clinical management of primary care
• Clinical management of social-healthcare and dependence
• Clinical management of mental healthcare
• Clinical management of specialised care
• Management and external quality assessment
• Management of the pharmaceutical healthcare system
• Patient management
• Management of biological diagnoses
• Management and quality methodology
• Network management
• Management of diagnostic imaging
• Management of the nursing process
• Ethics as a protection factor in care and research processes. Ethical concepts applied to management
• Communication
• Presentation of proposals-final master's project

Module IV: Practical training-rotational

• Practical rotational training in:
• Management of information systems and management control
• Management and patient care
• Economic and financial management and general services
• Human resource management
• Final master's project