Medical Leadership (MSc): 3-year, part-time
Postgraduate
In London
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Type
Postgraduate
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Location
London
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Duration
3 Years
This MSc Medical Leadership, run by Birkbeck in association with the Royal College of Physicians (RCP), is designed specifically for doctors to help them deal with the modern-day pressures and situations they face as leaders in the medical world. Modules are delivered in purpose-built teaching facilities at the RCP in London.
The academic content is put into clinical context through medical case studies. Presentations about these case studies are given by expert speakers, including postgraduate deans, medical directors and hospital chief executives.
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About this course
Graduates can pursue careers in medicine and education. This programme is designed to equip doctors with the skills and expertise they need to excel in senior management positions, such as clinical directors, medical directors and chief executives. Possible professions include higher education lecturer, general practice or hospital doctor, and management consultant.
The programme is aimed at fully qualified medical doctors practising within any specialty.
A minimum of one to two years' higher specialist training is essential, for example, StR 3-4 in medical specialties.
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Subjects
- Motivation
- Employee Relations
- Career Development
- Performance Management
- Leadership
- Medical
- Medical training
- Leadership and motivation
- Leading and Developing
- Management and Strategy
- Life Career Development
Course programme
You take the following modules and complete a dissertation.
YEAR 1- Leadership and motivation: a critical perspective
- Leading and Developing People (RCP)
- Selection and Assessment (RCP)
- Understanding and Changing Organizations (RCP)
- Leadership, management and strategy - a decision making perspective
- Life Career Development (RCP)
- Research methods for medical leadership
- Work and Well Being (RCP)
- Dissertation MSc Medical Leadership
Additional information
Part-time international students: £5660 pa
Medical Leadership (MSc): 3-year, part-time