Economics - Health Economics Practice هذه الدورة تدرس باللغة الإنجليزية

تفاصيل الدورة

The Postgraduate Diploma in Health Economics Practice is a practice-oriented course, designed to give students an excellent grounding in the use of economic decision-making in the health sector.  Economic decision-making is becoming increasingly important in the health area, with scarce resources being available for ever-increasing needs.  This course provides students with transferrable skills that can be used in a healthcare business or policy environment.  The course recognises that healthcare is as much a business as a policy area, and this is reflected in modules on health care markets and health care innovations.

Course Details

The Postgraduate Diploma in Health Economics Practice (Part I of the MA) includes 60 credits of taught modules.  The core modules examine economic decision-making in health, in terms of financing, resource allocation, distribution and delivery of healthcare.

The other modules relate to evaluating health outcomes, health services resourcing, research skills and methods for health economics, healthcare markets and innovations in health practice.

The course is examined entirely through continuous assessment, including written assignments, participation in online discussions, reflective learning logs, and presentations.  Emphasis is placed on transferrable skills and the personal, professional and intellectual development of students.

The course has numerous links with healthcare practitioners and businesses, and this is reflected in guest lectures and online live cases, where students are set a real-life problem by a healthcare practitioner or organisation and asked to develop solutions to this problem.

Students who successfully complete the Postgraduate Diploma and achieve a minimum of 60% average in their assessment may transfer their registration onto the MA Health Economics Practice, which involves a six-month placement in the healthcare sector.  (Those already working in the sector may continue in their positions.)  During this six months, students will be expected to address a problem in the organisation for which they are working, using economic decision-making techniques.

Detailed Entry Requirements

To apply for this course, you will need:

• A degree in a health-related discipline, with a minimum of 20 credits in undergraduate economics modules, or have completed the Bridging Programme for Health Economics Practice (see note below).
• A degree in economics and/or business with a minimum of 20 credits in undergraduate economics modules.
• Health sector practitioners and professionals may be accepted on the basis of recognition of prior learning founded on a minimum of two years’ experience, provided that they have also successfully completed the Bridging Programme for Health Economics Practice (see note below).

Course Practicalities

The course will be delivered predominately online, facilitating self-directed learning.  Field trips, guest lectures and live cases may be organised for times that suit both full-time and part-time students.

Assessment

The taught modules are assessed entirely via continuous assessment, including a combination of written assignments, online discussions, reflective logs, and presentations.

The placement is examined via a combination of reflective learning logs, a written report on the placement and a presentation of that report.