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Who is this course for?
Our online Executive MBA in Healthcare Management course is for management-level students who want to advance their leadership, industry and management skills.
We like students who challenge the status quo, who wake up ambitious and love working with other professionals.
How Will I Learn?
You will be supported throughout your studies by a committed team of internationally recognised educational experts.
Our courses are conducted entirely online through self-directed distance learning. You’ll receive guidance throughout your course with tutor-stimulated academic discussions, which are based on clinically-rich case scenarios.
These usually occur within groups of 10-20 students, allowing you to clearly communicate with both your tutor and fellow students.
Curriculum
The full Online Executive MBA in Healthcare Management will be formed of six 20 credit modules (120 credits in total) and a 60 credit student /organisation specific research/capstone project. This is an 18-month programme. Each module has been carefully crafted by taking into consideration the need to blend traditional business management subjects with rapidly emerging trends in healthcare.Module Aims
The module aims to introduce students to the principles and practices of marketing. It engages students in the selection and application of relevant marketing theories, conceptual tools and models to assist them in interpreting and solving marketing problems and presenting novel applications of marketing to improve the organisation's value propositions. Primarily it seeks to develop students’ capabilities to effectively direct and manage an organisation's marketing function.
Module Summary
- Understanding marketing management
- Developing marketing strategies and plans
- Creating customer value, satisfaction, and loyalty
- Analysing consumer and business markets
- Identifying market segments and targets
- Creating brand equity and Crafting the brand positioning
- Marketing through the life cycle
- Consumer behaviour
- Relationships loyalty and co-creation
- Service dominant logic
- Management of the original and extended marketing mix
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of the module, you will be able to:
- Critically evaluate an organisation's management of its marketing function and develop informed plans to improve it.
- Critically reflect upon the application of rapidly emerging marketing practices by various organisations.
Module Aims
The aim of the module is to introduce you to the nature and functioning of organisations and the behaviour of individuals and groups within them. It seeks to encourage you to use this knowledge to inform and improve your leadership and management skills and practices.
Module Summary
- The individual at work
- Motivation, satisfaction and productivity
- Group behaviour and leadership
- Power, authority and conflict in organisations
- Organisational structure and design
- Organisational culture
- Organisational change
- Wellbeing
- Employee engagement
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of the module, you will be able to:
- Critically evaluate relevant theories and empirical evidence relating to organisational behaviour.
- Critically appraise and evaluate different strategies for management and leadership.
Module Aims
This module aims to develop your understanding and interpretation of sound financial management to almost all business decisions in order to understand the impact of this function on the principles and practices of executive management decision making.
Module Summary
- The terminology of accounting and the structure and content of the main financial statements used by business organisations.
- The role and use of different financial statements
- The use of management accounting techniques for business planning and decision making.
- Sources of business finance and the role of financial information in the financing of a business.
- Business budgeting and budgetary control
- The use of investment appraisal techniques in retail management
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of the module, you will be able to:
- Critically evaluate, present and prepare financial information in a clear accurate way.
- Demonstrate a critical understanding of the use of financial information for management decision making and control.
Module Aims
The module aims to develop your understanding and application of the principles, practices, models and tools called upon to ensure a holistic, responsible approach to strategic management. It engages students in the selection and application of relevant conceptual tools and models to assist them in interpreting both the business environment and the organisation's resource base to solve problems and presenting novel, sustainable business level strategies.
Module Summary
- Strategic management philosophies and schools of thought
- Business Environment Analysis
- Competitive positioning / rivalry
- Core Competencies / Resource Based Strategies
- Generic Business Strategies
- Strategies for growth / sustainability
- Stakeholder engagement / positioning
- Value chain analysis
- Strategic Change
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of the module, you will be able to:
- Critically evaluate an organisation's management of its approach to strategic function and develop informed plans to improve it.
- Diagnose strategic opportunities or problems and critically evaluate strategic choices and viable strategic options to assist them.
Module Aims
The module aims to:
- Develop an ability to apply the theory and practice of Clinical Governance and Quality Improvement to complex healthcare settings.
- Develop a critical understanding of quality metrics within healthcare
Module Summary
- Clinical Governance: ethos and ethics, theory and background
- The “Seven Pillars" of Clinical Governance.
- Applying Clinical Governance in practice: patient safety, clinical effectiveness, quality assurance
- Clinical Governance and Law.
- Quality in Healthcare – Why and How? Selecting and using appropriate methodologies (research and audit)
- Navigating Quality Management in Healthcare.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of the module, you will be able to:
- Critically appraise the role of clinical/ corporate governance in improving healthcare organisations.
- Navigate and critically evaluate the complexities of implementing clinical/corporate governance and quality agendas in the practice setting.
Module Aims
This module aims to:
- Develop your ability to effectively manage change and the innovation process within complex healthcare organisational structures.
- Develop an ability to critically evaluate innovation and change within the healthcare environment
Module Summary
- Organisational Change and the Innovation Process
- Change Management theories / models
- Change Management resistance and implementation
- Innovation management processes and practices
Learning Outcomes
- Compare and contrast a range of change management theories and models in the context of a healthcare setting.
- Critically evaluate and recommend suitable management actions / strategies and systems for the development and introduction of innovation processes, functions and disruptions in healthcare delivery.
Module aims
The aim of this module is to consolidate students learning acquired through their executive MBA programme into a single capstone project. Students will carry out an independent study on a management topic of their choice. They will have the opportunity to apply the comprehensive theoretical knowledge, understanding and skills that they obtained throughout the executive MBA to an area of interest within either their own workplace setting or a company of their choosing and compile a comprehensive report.
Module Summary
- Recap the key learning outcomes of the module they have studied
- Evaluate suitable collection, analysis and interpretation of different types of data and evidence
- Determine effective / evidence-based decision making in organisations for business case development
- Developing a suitable executive management capstone project proposal
- Producing a capstone project report
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of the module, you will be able to:
- Synthesise knowledge gained during executive MBA Studies and apply these in developing solutions to complex management issues and improving performance.
- Develop conceptual understanding of business and management theory and constructs in a way that facilitates systematic search, justification and evaluation of competing courses of action.
- Critically evaluate information and data (evidence) to inform real life management decisions within the workplace.
Assessment Methods
There are three components of assessment to assess the learning outcomes of each taught module. These test different elements of learning including critical analysis, management skills, professional reflection and independent/community of practice based study.
Scenarios reflective of day-to-day work situations will be presented for students to consider and answer every week. Students critically discuss the concepts within their online group discussion forum facilitated throughout the module by their tutor and marked by them at the end of the module.
Students learn by finding relevant literature, reading and critically appraising it; discussing it within the discussion forum and applying it critically to real world examples and your own practice. The content of the scenario is based on the learning outcomes for the module.
The scenarios, reflective portfolio and the group work is carried on as the module progresses which ensures engagement throughout the module.
The reflective journal is used by students throughout each module to monitor personal progress. This is guided by weekly feedback from your tutor and is graded at the end of every module. The journal typically includes the following:
- Initial expectations and reasons for taking the course.
- Module and/or personal learning objectives.
- Description of events, issues and learning points within current personal practice.
- Change in every day practice due to knowledge gained on each module.
- A description of what has been learned during the module.
At the beginning of each module, students are presented with a module assignment. The module activity may take the form of an individual piece of work, such as an essay on a relevant topic, or it may be a group activity such as the creation of a marketing plan.
Entry requirements
Our digital doors are open to both local and international students from diverse educational and social backgrounds. We offer no international surcharge and believe having a multi-disciplinary and multi-national cohort is best for student development. Typically, applicants for the online Executive MBA in Healthcare Management will:
Minimum of a 2.1 degree
Awarded by a UK university or an overseas equivalent
Have 3 years' management experience
The Executive MBA is for those who have significant post-graduation and/or relevant work experience on which the learning process should build. The experience required will be at least 3 years in a managerial position.
Ability to communicate their ideas effectively
In some cases, applicants may be asked to submit a piece of work for assessment in order to confirm that they are able to work comfortably at postgraduate level and demonstrate the requisite professional knowledge.
Basic I.T skills
e.g. word-processing, email and internet will also be expected.
English language
If English is not your first language, you must have one of the following qualifications as evidence of English language skills:
- IELTS: 6.5 with 5.5 minimum in each skill
- Duolingo online English test with 100 overall and 90 in each component.You will need to nominate Diploma MSc/Learna to receive your results.
- Cambridge Certificate of Proficiency in English (CPE): Grade C or above
- Cambridge Certificate of Advanced English (CAE): Grade B or above
- Pearson Test of English (Academic): 60 with 51 in each component
- IBT TOEFL: 90 with no subtest less than 17
Duolingo is also accepted, as long as your score is above 95 per component.*
Please note that those who provide their proof of English proficiency through Duolingo will receive £50 off their final course payment. This discount is applied after payment of your deposit is received.
Course Fees
Option 1: Upfront Payment in full. Option 2: Interest free payments every other month for the duration of the course.
Date | Instalments | Up-Front Payments |
---|---|---|
Deposit payable on acceptance† | £830 | £830 |
1st November 2022 | £830 | £8,050 |
1st January 2023 | £830 | |
1st March 2023 | £830 | |
1st May 2023 | £830 | |
1st July 2023 | £830 | |
1st September 2023 | £650 | |
1st November 2023 | £650 | |
1st January 2024 | £650 | |
1st March 2024 | £650 | |
1st May 2024 | £650 | |
1st July 2024 | £650 |
† Deposits are non-refundable
Option 3: Lower your monthly payments by spreading the cost for between 2 and 8 years with a loan from our lending partner Lendwise*.
*Subject to eligibility criteria.
Learna | Diploma MSc has a partnership with Lendwise which is a leading private student loan provider, to help UK students fund their course fees should they require financing. Lendwise is a UK-based education finance platform through which candidates can fund their postgraduate and professional qualification studies at leading educational institutions.
A Lendwise loan comes with a fixed interest rate for the duration of the loan (between 2 and 8 years) and no early repayment penalties. The interest rate offered will depend on the overall applicant profile and the application process is entirely online.*
*Other sources of funding are available.
Learna | Diploma MSc does not offer financial advice, recommend or endorse any financial product. You should always check the suitability of the product that is of interest to you. If you are in any doubt as to its suitability, we suggest that you seek independent professional advice.