MPH5316 Healthcare improvement and learning systems
Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences
MPH5316 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 2023. It has no prerequisites.
- Credit points
- 6
- Offered in 2023
- Other periods
- Monash Online
- Assessment
- No exam
- 4 tasks
This is the 2023 handbook entry. See the 2027 entry.
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Requisites
Before MPH5316
Prohibitions
You can't enrol if you have passed any of these.
After MPH5316
No unit lists MPH5316 as a prerequisite in the 2023 handbook.
Enrolment rules
Must be enrolled in M6007.
Overview
This unit provides you with the skills and knowledge to develop and implement healthcare improvement projects in clinical settings. You will learn about translating and mobilising new knowledge and engage with community and service users to conduct healthcare improvement projects and lead innovation. You will critically apply and evaluate the process of knowledge mobilisation (KM) and strategies commonly used in implementation science.
You 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. Health improvement science is crucial for translating new knowledge into practice and delivering the best possible patient care. This requires capacity to mobilise new knowledge and spread and sustain innovation. Strategies to enable knowledge sharing and the role of knowledge brokers will be explored. Specific capabilities for KM include: stakeholder engagement, data collection, managing information systems, process and system thinking.
You will learn how to identify gaps in healthcare, manage data and information, and co-design solutions with key stakeholders.
Offerings in 2023
| Teaching period | Campus | Mode |
|---|---|---|
| Teaching period 4 | Monash Online | Mo |
Assessment
- 6 x Critical reflections (300 words each)30%
- Slides for an oral presentation (15 minutes plus questions)20%
- Reflection on oral presentation (900 words)15%
- Healthcare improvement project plan35%
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 approachOnline learning
Approximately 20 hours of online work per week. All work is performed off-campus, as the Master of Health Administration is conducted entirely online as part of the Monash Pearson Alliance.
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
- Chief Examiners
- Ms Rhonda Garad
- Unit Coordinators
- Ms Rhonda Garad
Common questions
What are the prerequisites for MPH5316?
MPH5316 has no prerequisites, but enrolment rules apply.
When is MPH5316 offered?
MPH5316 has no offerings listed in the 2023 handbook.
Does MPH5316 have an exam?
No. MPH5316 has 4 assessment tasks and no exam.