Overview 2020
Location
This course may not be available to international students. Please see the list of distance courses (i.e. online and taken outside Australia) that are offered to international students
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Delivered over 2 years this fully flexible online program is designed to fit around the busy lives of professionals working in the healthcare industry:
- build your practical skills and enhance your research capabilities
- your expertise will be developed in planning, implementation and evaluation of evidence-based health service improvements
- develop your advanced problem solving and analytical skills to help 'diagnose' service delivery issues and inefficiencies
- implement solutions that can lead to lasting change, improved service delivery and sustainable health care
This course will also provide you with an opportunity to undertake research, building on topics that are of an interest to you and which you wish to explore in greater depth.
This is the perfect course for anyone motivated by positive change and improvement in healthcare whether you are a practising health professional in a public, private or not-for-profit organisation, or a healthcare service administrator. Your experience will be built upon to equip you with the essential skills, tools and knowledge to lead improvement initiatives. This implies better outcomes for consumers of healthcare.
So enhance your career opportunities and begin the journey into healthcare improvement today.
Career outcomes
Enhancement of their role as healthcare professionals with the ability to plan, implement and evaluate evidence-based healthcare/services improvements into practice. By consolidating and advancing communication skills, students will be able to build more effective relationships with patients and other health professionals.
Course structure
Entry requirements
Fees & scholarships
Domestic students
Scholarships
For information on general scholarships available at the University of Tasmania, please visit the scholarships website.
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- Domestic
- 13 8827 (13 UTAS)
- International
- +61 3 6226 6200
- Course.Info@utas.edu.au
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