Postgraduate Diploma in Healthcare Management

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The module is designed to provide the learners with the opportunity to be familiar with all the components of the marketing mix. They will be exposed to discussions that could develop skills to craft marketing strategies and prepare them to complete marketing plans for companies in different sectors, environments and situations, in accordance with their global policies and strategies

The module is designed to enable potential managers to review the  creation of financial statements (accounting cycle) and then learn about  users and providers of management accounting information. Learners also  learn internal accounting terms and procedures; use of accounting data  in planning, control and performance evaluation; assumptions and  limitations of conventional accounting measurements.

 The module is designed to equip learners with the abilities and skills to adapt and manage an increasingly diverse human resource, and in a competitive business environment. The areas include diversity management; job analysis and job design; human resource planning; and recruiting, screening and selection of candidates; interviewing candidates; orientation, training and development; compensation, incentives and benefits; evaluating and appraising employee performance; and organizational culture and cross-cultural issues.

The module is designed to present the nature and purpose of strategic  management from local and global perspectives, strategic management  models, strategy formulation, external environmental analysis, internal  environmental analysis and evaluation, competing in the global  marketplace, strategy implementation, strategy monitoring through  balanced scorecards, issues related to the organization’s functional  areas in relation to the corporate business strategy, strategy review,  evaluation and control, as well as corporate social responsibilities of  companies that implement an integrative corporate strategy.

This module is designed to provide exposure for learners to the  principles, methods, and processes in healthcare operations. The  protracted period of the coronavirus crisis has place healthcare  operations and healthcare management in the limelight as perhaps the  most important discipline as it is a matter of life and death for many  individuals around the world. Healthcare workers who are at the  frontlines of the battle for life need managers and operators who can  facilitate the balance between patients’ survival and streamlined  medical provision. It explores the challenges that managers encounter in  healthcare facilities, with staff who themselves are physically and  emotionally battered daily, address the rising standards in  communications, technologies, and demanding regulations. It also covers  managing risks and the management of the supply chain.

This module is designed to provide exposure for the learners to focus on  improving the standards of hygiene and safety in healthcare services.  Healthcare quality standards cannot be compromised for obvious reasons,  i.e., human lives are at stake. Thus, the quality of healthcare ought to  be maintained all the time while healthcare managers seek ways to  continually improve. It covers the alternatives in healthcare  improvement, challenges in the safety of patients, strategies to lead  healthcare quality assurance, techniques in solving healthcare quality  issues, and compliance to healthcare quality regulations and global  practice.