Graduate Certificate of Healthcare Management
2025 Deakin University Handbook
| Award granted | Graduate Certificate of Healthcare Management |
|---|---|
| Deakin course code | M543 |
| Course version | 1 |
| Faculty | Faculty of Business and Law |
| Course Information | For students who commenced from 2021 to 2024 |
| Final Intake | Offered to continuing students only. The final intake to this course was in teaching period 1 2024. Students should contact Student Central for course, course map and enrolment information. |
| Duration | 0.5 year full-time or part-time equivalent |
| Australian Qualifications Framework (AQF) recognition | The award conferred upon completion is recognised in the Australian Qualifications Framework at Level 8 |
Course sub-headings
- Course overview
- Indicative student workload
- Professional recognition
- Course Learning Outcomes
- Course structure
Course overview
Develop the essential skills and capabilities required to manage and lead healthcare services in Australia and overseas with Deakin’s Graduate Certificate of Healthcare Management. Jointly run and managed by the Deakin Business School and the School of Medicine, this course aims to develop business acumen in healthcare practitioners.
Are you a healthcare practitioner looking to build your management expertise?
If you are a physician, nurse, nurse practitioner, allied health professional or healthcare manager facing increasing management responsibilities or seeking to advance into a more management-focused role, this course will particularly benefit you.
Keeping your options open for further study? This course is a pathway to the Graduate Diploma of Business Administration, Master of Business Administration (MBA) or Master of Business Administration (Healthcare Management).
Indicative student workload
As a student in the Faculty of Business and Law, you can expect to participate in a range of teaching activities each week. This could include classes, seminars, practicals and online interaction. You can refer to the individual unit details in the course structure for more information. You will also need to study and complete assessment tasks in your own time.
Professional recognition
Deakin Business School holds both AACSB and EQUIS accreditations. These prestigious accreditations are awarded to business schools that meet strict standards of quality, academic and professional excellence, and demonstrate a commitment to ongoing improvement and innovation in their courses, ensuring our graduates are employable worldwide
Course Learning Outcomes
| Graduate Learning Outcome | Course Learning Outcome |
| Discipline specific knowledge and capabilities | Demonstrate an understanding of how contemporary business processes impact and drive the management of healthcare systems |
| Communication | Articulate complex business situations and challenges facing healthcare services and communicate insights and recommendations in addressing these |
| Digital literacy | Not explicitly addressed as a learning outcome in this award |
| Critical thinking | Critically analyse and evaluate complex business and organisational issues that underpin the functioning of healthcare services |
| Problem solving | Apply problem-solving skills to analyse, develop and recommend solutions for complex business and management issues relevant to the provision of healthcare services |
| Self-management | Not explicitly addressed as a learning outcome in this award |
| Teamwork | Not explicitly addressed as a learning outcome in this award |
| Global citizenship | Not explicitly addressed as a learning outcome in this award |
Course structure
Compulsory 0-credit point module
To be completed in the first trimester of study:-
| DAI001 | Academic Integrity and Respect at Deakin |
Core units
| MBR701/MBA701 | Strategy and Innovation Management: Managing Value and Risk ^ |
| HME712 | Healthcare Operations # |
^MBR code denotes residential version of the unit
# As an alternative to HME712, students can complete the following two stackable short courses in a flexible study mode:
HMC701-OD Patient Flow Management
HMC702-OD Patient journey and System Design
Course electives
2 credit points of specified elective units, comprised of:
| MBA700 | Leadership and Professional Development |
| MBT703/MBA703 | Creating Value for Sustainable Business Practice * |
| MBT704/MBA704 | Marketing, Consumers, and the Marketplace *^ |
| MBR706/MBA706 | Leading People in Organisations ^ |
| HME704 | Fundamentals of Digital Health |
| HME705 | Unit description is currently unavailable |
| HME711 | Health Law and Ethics |
| HME713 | Unit description is currently unavailable |
or
0.5 cp Microcredential/Masterclass units offered by Deakin University (max 2)
^MBR code denotes residential version of the unit
*MBT code denotes study tour version of the unit
Further information
Contact Student Central for assistance in course planning, choosing the right units and explaining course rules and requirements. Student Central can also provide information for a wide range of services at Deakin. To help you understand the University vocabulary, please refer to our Enrolment codes and terminology page.