Advanced Health Professional: Expert

Job description

Advanced Health Professionals with a degree in Academic Expert are highly qualified healthcare professionals who are able to take on more complex tasks within the healthcare system. This includes providing care in complex patient situations, carrying out specific assessments and interventions, and interprofessional collaboration. Patients and their relatives and friends are supported in their health and self-care skills and in terms of preventive measures. Other healthcare professions are supported through consultation and advice. Graduates form a bridge between practice, science and quality assurance and play a key role in improving patient care.

How do you become an Advanced Health Professional (Expert)?

Anyone who, after completing a bachelor's degree or diploma in the health sector and at least two years of professional experience, would like to take on an expert role in their own field of specialisation can complete the Advanced Health Professional university course at the University of Applied Sciences for Health Professions Upper Austria at the Med Campus V. Linz study location. The two-semester course concludes with the title ‘Academic Expert in Clinical Practice’. The main focus of the training includes outcome measurement, quality and data management, digitalised healthcare, case work and case management, and consultation. Accompanying internships enable an optimal transfer of theory into practice.