Programme summary for MBA Health Care Management

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The MBA ( Health Care Management) at UEL builds on our long-standing experience of offering a wide range of postgraduate programmes both in the UK and overseas. The programme is offered as a career development generalist programme within a given sector for those who have a first degree (or equivalent) and relevant work experience on which the learning process should build. The programme can be considered as a management conversion programme at Masters level. The MBA is based on the recognition that international and global business skills and understanding are required if firms or services and those working within them are to compete effectively and thus maximise the potential or their resources. The main emphasis is on leadership through strategic management where students are expected to ground their new knowledge within the base of their previous professional experience. Students are expected to reflect on and learn from prior experience and combine this with new knowledge to apply to new situations. The main aims of the programme then are;

To facilitate the advanced study of organisations, in particular healthcare organisations, their management and the changing external context in which they operate.
To develop knowledge and understanding of key areas of management.
To develop a career in business and management through the development of relevant skills at the appropriate level or to facilitate further research or study in the area.
To facilitate the application of knowledge and understanding of business and management to complex issues through critical and analytical approaches to management theory, practice and research.
To enhance the ability to evaluate management techniques, tools and models in a variety of contexts.
To recognise the relationship between ideas and practices.
To develop personal and interpersonal skills relevant to management and communicate the arising issues in written and oral form.
To equip students with the necessary knowledge and skills to achieve the appropriate level of post graduate award and continue their lifelong learning development.