UnitLevel 5Postgraduate

HPE5015 Leadership and innovations in health professions education

Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences

HPE5015 Leadership and innovations in health professions education is a level 5, 12-credit-point, postgraduate unit from the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, offered in 2020 in Semester 1 at Clayton. It has no prerequisites.

Credit points
12
Offered in 2020
Semester 1
Clayton

The 2027 handbook has no page for HPE5015. This is its 2020 entry, the latest one.

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Requisites

Before HPE5015

No prerequisites or corequisites besides the enrolment rules below.

After HPE5015

No unit lists HPE5015 as a prerequisite in the 2020 handbook.

Enrolment rules

Corequisite: Must be enrolled in a Postgraduate degree

Overview

This unit is designed to introduce a range of current issues in leadership, innovations and sustainability in health.

It is specifically intended to provide students with innovative ways to tackle global health care and health education challenges, drawing from local and international expertise and research.

Students are required to attend five days of compulsory master classes.

Themes will include:

  • Health workforce planning and development
  • Challenges to current health care delivery in Australasia and internationally
  • Innovations in health care system and education planning.
  • Leadership in complex environments.

Each of these will be supported by readings and activities within the students' own environments where possible.

Offerings in 2020

Teaching periodCampusMode
First semesterClaytonBlock on
First semester (extended)ClaytonBlock on

Learning outcomes

When you finish this unit, you should be able to:

  1. 1

    Identify local and global issues which affect the sustainability of healthcare delivery and education

  2. 2

    Examine a range of different healthcare and health education models of delivery

  3. 3

    Apply design thinking processes to develop innovative ways to meet the healthcare needs of the community

  4. 4

    Articulate the rationale for researching these key areas of intensive research.

  5. 5

    Apply an in-depth understanding of at least one relevant area of the current literature to educational practice.

  6. 6

    Communicate a coherent summary of issues in a particular topical domain within the health professional education literature.

  7. 7

    Synthesise the implications of empirical and theoretical literature underpinning health professional education practice.

  8. 8

    Critique a range of perspectives within a particular topical domain within health professional education literature.

  9. 9

    Apply theoretical and empirical literature to the development of educational innovations within their own health professional education context.

Workload and teaching

Five days teacher directed learning (master classes) and up to 20 hours/week self-directed learning.

Contacts

Chief Examiners
Professor Margaret Hay
Unit Coordinators
Professor Margaret Hay

Common questions

What are the prerequisites for HPE5015?

HPE5015 has no prerequisites, but enrolment rules apply.

When is HPE5015 offered?

In 2020, HPE5015 runs in Semester 1 at Clayton.

More details

Credit points
12
Level
5
Study level
Postgraduate
Faculty
Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences
Organisational unit
MNHS Education Portfolio
Type
Coursework
EFTSL
0.250
Student contribution
SCA Band 1
Study abroad
Not available
Handbook years
2020