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MSc/PgDip/PgCert Medical Leadership

Master

In Sheffield ()

£ 2,100 + VAT

Description

  • Type

    Master

Course description
Make a difference to your practice by developing your leadership and management skills on a course designed for specialty registrars within a leadership role. The course supports deanery-sponsored Leadership Fellowship appointments. You have the chance to learn alongside other doctors in action learning sets in support of individual specialist projects.
The course supports and encourages you to apply key theoretical concepts to work-based issues or problems and look for more effective medical management and quality improvement for patient care. You develop your leadership skills and knowledge and gain a recognised qualification with minimal disruption to your service.
All your assignments are work-based enabling you to complete projects you are already working on as focus for your learning.
In year one and two you attend university for 10 days each year for full-day workshops. The content of these workshops is flexible and designed to meet your current needs. Workshops include supported action-learning sets helping you to tackle real world issues within a community of like-minded practitioners to develop innovative solutions to difficult workplace problems.
The postgraduate certificate addresses operational management from a medical perspective and the postgraduate diploma covers strategic elements of medical leadership. The masters year contains a research methods module and a supervised dissertation.

About this course

If you are a specialty registrar, this course helps you develop your leadership and management skills. Assessments are based on the analysis of your real life work-based situations, allowing you to focus on the issues and problems most relevant to you and your workplace.

Entry requirements
2017 entry requirements
You should be a Specialty Registrar in – or considering – a leadership role; or a Leadership Fellow. Applications from those working within Public Health leadership roles are also considered. You may also be able to claim credit points which can reduce the amount of time it takes to complete your qualification at Sheffield Hallam. Find out more
If English is not your first language you will need an IELTS score of 6.0 with a minimum of 5.5 in all skills, or a recognised equivalent. If your level of English language is currently below...

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Subjects

  • Leadership
  • Medical
  • Medical training

Course programme

Course structure

Part-time – three to six years

Postgraduate certificate and postgraduate diploma – 10 days each academic year, delivered as full day workshops plus a one day induction.

Starts September and March. Other start dates can be negotiated on a case-by-case basis in order to best support leadership placements.

Typical modules may include

Core modules

Medical leadership 1 (15 credits)
This module is grounded in the interconnect between the core clinical knowledge of the doctor as clinical leader and their developmental role as leader of a service. It helps you identify a significant workplace issue that requires clinical leadership and engagement to expand your learning of effective leadership intervention.

Medical leadership 2 (15 credits)
Building on medical leadership 1, this module allows you to investigate an area of strategic interest within your current leadership role and responsibilities in order to generate solutions to current issues, supported by a nominated advisor.

Optional modules

Leading sustainable change (30 credits)
The presence of change is a constant in organisations today. Research suggests that a high number of change initiatives fail to be successfully implemented. This means that a lot of good ideas that could improve service delivery and patient/service user care fail to come to fruition. A common feature of this is the failure to understand the process of organisational change and organisation culture. This module helps you to understand how you could successfully embed your ideas within your organisation.

Strategy and systems (30 credits)
This module enables you to develop an understanding of the fundamental challenges, principles and practices of strategic management; and utilise systems-thinking, methods and practices in order to develop a critical understanding of strategic development in clinical settings.

Service development and evaluation (operations management) (15 credits)
This module enables you to gain core operations management skills that help you develop, implement and evaluate improvements to your service. It is beneficial to you as a leader/manager, as well as to your organisation and the patients your service cares for.

Independent study module (15 credits)
This module makes it is possible to study a specific topic or issue in depth, where this is not met by an existing module of study. You explore the theoretical issues of an aspect of practice or a topic of special interest relevant to you and your workplace, during which you are supported by the guidance of a nominated advisor.

Masters

Dissertation for leadership in health and social care professions (research methods 15 credits, dissertation 45 credits)
After completing either a facilitated or distance-learning research methods module you commence a dissertation project focusing on real organisational or practice questions within the leadership context. The project should have the capacity to influence the development of your organisation. Your tutors provide academic support and guidance with choosing your research topic, methodology, data analysis and preparation for publication. You may also join a research group with other students to support each other and feedback on your progress.

MSc/PgDip/PgCert Medical Leadership

£ 2,100 + VAT