Health Systems - Strategy Leadership & Innovation in Healthcare
The Graduate Certificate in Strategy, Leadership & Innovation in Healthcare is is one of a number of programmes offered by the UCD IRIS Centre for Interdisciplinary, Research, Innovation & Education in Health Systems.
It is a 30-ECTS-credit, QQI Level 9 interdisciplinary programme. The programme is offered every two years. The next intake is in September 2023. The minimum time to completion is one calendar year for part-time students; the maximum time is two calendar years.
These modules contribute 30 ECTS credits towards UCD's MSc in Leadership, Innovation and Management for Healthcare. Holders of the Graduate Certificate can complete the MSc by successfully completing a further 60 ECTS credits of study.
The Graduate Certificate in Strategy, Leadership & Innovation in Healthcare will appeal to healthcare professionals seeking a rigourous and comprehensive introduction to important principles and concepts to inform their leadership and management practice.
The three modules comprising the programme contribute 30 ECTS credits towards UCD's MSc in Leadership, Innovation and Management for Healthcare, and fulfil two of the three mandatory module requirements for the MSc. Holders of the Graduate Certificate can complete the MSc by successfully completing a further 60 ECTS credits of study, either by means of six 10-ECTS-credit taught modules or a combination of taught modules and a dissertation or project, that must include the third mandatory MSc module, Systems Thinking in Healthcare (NMHS 43820). See https://www.nmhs.ucd.ie/msclim for further information.
The Graduate Certificate aims to:
enhance awareness of the ways in which you and others practice leadership and management
develop an appreciation of the contribution of systems and design thinking to your practice
enable you to acquire and apply knowledge to improve the systems and processes that underpin the delivery of safe, high-quality, responsive, integrated and person-centred care
develop and strengthen your strategic sensing capabilities in order to enhance strategic capacity, engagement and alignment in your organisation
develop and strengthen your creative, innovative and knowledge management capabilities
The programme will contribute to your personal and professional development by introducing you to ways of identifying, analysing, critiquing and evaluating the ways in which you and your colleagues currently lead and manage. You will acquire the capacity to locate ways of leading and managing within relevant conceptual frameworks and to situate them in systems, organisational and team contexts.
You will be prepared to become a more responsive, effective and resilient leader and manager who thinks and practices strategically and innovatively to improve patients' and colleagues' experiences of the health system.
Subjects taught
The programme comprises three 10-ECTS-credit modules:
Trimester 1 (Sept to Dec 2023):
NMHS tbc: Health Systems and Health Policy
NMHS tbc: Global Health Landscape and Leadership
Trimester 2 (Jan to May 2024):
NMHS tbc: Enhancing Strategic and Innovative Capacity in Health Systems
For the 2023/24 timetable please contact the Programme Administrator.
Entry requirements
Applicants will normally hold an NQF Level 8 academic award but consideration will be given to applicants with relevant and appropriate qualifications and experience working in the health system
Experience in a management and/or leadership role is desirable
A willingness to explore your own leadership and management practices and their impact on the systems in which you work is essential.
Please contact the Programme Director before you make your application.
Application dates
Closing Date:
30 June 2023 Completed applications are reviewed on a rolling basis and programmes will close once they are filled. We advise you to apply as early as possible to avoid disappointment.
Application is now open for this programme and you can apply at http://www.ucd.ie/apply
Duration
1 academic year.
Post Course Info
The knowledge, understandings and skills acquired throughout the programme will prepare you to contribute as a leader and manager in a number of areas and at many levels in the health system, including:
Strategy design and implementation
Clinical leadership and management
Innovation
Practice development
Education
Management and administration