MPH5292 Healthcare improvement and learning systems
Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences
MPH5292 Healthcare improvement and learning systems is a level 5, 6-credit-point, postgraduate unit from the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences. It isn't offered in 2021. It has no prerequisites.
- Credit points
- 6
- Offered in 2021
- Other periods
- Alfred Hospital
- Assessment
- No exam
- 3 tasks
The 2027 handbook has no page for MPH5292. This is its 2021 entry, the latest one.
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Requisites
Before MPH5292
Prohibitions
You can't enrol if you have passed any of these.
After MPH5292
No unit lists MPH5292 as a prerequisite in the 2021 handbook.
Enrolment rules
Must be enrolled in M4006
Equivalent units
The same content under another code. Only one of them counts.
Overview
This unit provides students with the skills and knowledge to develop and implement healthcare improvement projects in clinical settings. Students will learn about translating and mobilising new knowledge and engage with community and service users to conduct healthcare improvement projects and lead innovation. Students will critically apply and evaluate the process of knowledge mobilisation (KM) and strategies commonly used in implementation science. They will discuss and critically evaluate models and strategies for disseminating evidence and leading innovation in the workplace. Concepts explored include change management strategies in health environments and strategies for solution co-design. Students will learn how to identify gaps in healthcare, manage data and information, and co-design solutions with key stakeholders.
Offerings in 2021
| Teaching period | Campus | Mode |
|---|---|---|
| Trimester 3 | Alfred Hospital | Online |
Assessment
- Critical reflections (5 x 300 words)30%
- Oral voice-over presentation (15 minutes) and reflection35%
- Healthcare improvement project plan (2,100 words)35%
Learning outcomes
When you finish this unit, you should be able to:
- 1
Critically analyse how health care systems are organised, including identifying and applying change and innovation methods, leadership strategies and approaches.
- 2
Critique the basis of complexity theory and implementation science theories and research.
- 3
Identify stakeholders for health care improvement and develop active stakeholder engagement participation through implementing appropriate project planning strategies.
- 4
Investigate individual and organisational competencies, and propose methods for mobilising knowledge in health care improvement.
- 5
Implement data analysis techniques in assessing quality of life and outcomes in health care systems, in order to formulate improvement projects for wide-scale implementation.
- 6
Develop an evaluation plan for health care improvement projects.
Workload and teaching
- Teaching approachActive learning
20 hours per week for 6 weeks.
For full details of the teaching approach to this unit, please refer to Moodle.
Learning resources
Required resources
See Moodle for details about required resources.
Contacts
- Unit Coordinators
- Ms Rhonda Garad
Common questions
What are the prerequisites for MPH5292?
MPH5292 has no prerequisites, but enrolment rules apply.
When is MPH5292 offered?
MPH5292 has no offerings listed in the 2021 handbook.
Does MPH5292 have an exam?
No. MPH5292 has 3 assessment tasks and no exam.
More details
- Credit points
- 6
- Level
- 5
- Study level
- Postgraduate
- Faculty
- Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences
- Organisational unit
- Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine
- Type
- Coursework
- EFTSL
- 0.125
- Student contribution
- SCA Band 2
- Study abroad
- Not available
- Handbook years
- 2021