The aim of the course is to contribute to each student¿s knowledge and skills necessary to be a manager within the health sector. The course will give an insight into:

• Conditions which promote or obstruct sound management policies within the health sector
• How organisational theory can be utilised as an analytical tool within the health sector
• Basic concepts within social medicine regarding the population¿s health and disease patterns
• Priority and efficiency challenges in the Norwegian health sector
• Reforms on different levels in the health sector which constitute the framework for sound management and organisation of the respective unit
• Conditions which promote or hinder learning in knowledge organisations
• Communication across different occupational groups
• Cooperation and restructuring management

KnowledgeAfter completing the course, the student should be able to:

• employ various theories of management to specific cases
• employ organisational theory as a tool when analysing health organisations
• understand concepts within social medicine which explain changes in the population¿s usage of health care services
• understand the content and the general conditions for reforms in the health sector - especially the Coordination Reform
• explain the mechanisms which promote or hinder learning in knowledge organisations
• understand current priority and efficiency challenges in the Norwegian health sector
• explain the tools that exist to promote management of restructuring
• explain the difference between various forms of coordination and cooperation

After completing the course, the student¿s skills should have been strengthened in the following areas:

• Supervision of co-workers, units and organisations
• Communication and cooperation across different professions
• Contribution in removing learning obstacles in knowledge organisations
• Making qualified assessments of challenges to quality and efficiency in the health sector
• Awareness with respect to the different tools offered to organisations in the health sector
• Understanding of how restructuring on different levels in the health sector frames the organisation and management of every unit
• Stimulation of co-workers to commitment, cooperation and communication
• Managing development and reorganisation processes in the health sector

General competenciesAfter completing the course the students should have:

• matured as managers within the health sector through acquiring knowledge and skills enabling the systematisation of their own and others¿ experience-based knowledge.

The lectures are condensed into four week-long seminars which are stretched out over a period of half a year. The course starts in the autumn semester and finishes with an exam at the beginning of the following year.

Lectures are held by textbook authors, course coordinators, researchers and medical practitioners. Dialogue between the lecturers and students will be a central part of the teaching. Theories and concepts from the curriculum will be discussed in plenary and in groups based on the participants¿ own experiences. The fact that the course is experience-based means that the participants¿ experiences will be actively utilised as a resource in the lectures.

The students will be expected to complete individual, supervised tasks which will be presented to the class. The students are expected to reserve time for independent studies between the seminars. Through the net based support system ¿My Page¿ the students can access current literature, teaching schedules and other relevant information.

Continuing Education (UiB Videre)

University of Bergen
Postboks 7800, NO-5020 Bergen
Phone.: +47 55 58 20 40
e-mail: videre@uib.no

Course administrator:

Randi Oen

http://www.uib.no/en/persons/Randi.Oen