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
Campus	Melbourne (Burwood), Cloud (online) - For students who commenced prior to Trimester 2 2024
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
For continuing students only. The final intake for this course was Trimester 1 2024. Continuing students should discuss unit selections with their enrolment officer and refer to the Handbook Archives for their course structure.

Course sub-headings

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

Career opportunities

Deakin's Graduate Certificate of Healthcare Management has been developed to fill a gap in Australia and the Asia-Pacific for qualified professionals with skills and knowledge to lead and manage healthcare service delivery.

This course will benefit:

Physicians
Nurses
Nurse practitioners
Allied health professionals
Healthcare managers.

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 rules

To complete the Graduate Certificate of Healthcare Management students must pass 4 credit points and meet the following course rules to be eligible to graduate:

DAI001 Academic Integrity Module (0-credit-point compulsory unit) in their first study period
2 credit points of core units
2 credit points of course electives units

Students are required to meet the University's academic progress and conduct requirements. See the enrolment codes and terminology to help make sense of the University's vocabulary.

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