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Advanced Health Professional: Master

  • Type Master Course (extra-occupational, attendance day vary according to Semester)
  • Duration 4 Semester
  • Locations Linz
Cover image Master AHP, healthcare professionals stand around a tablet and discuss. Fotocredit: Adobe Stock

Details about the course

The aim of the Master's programme Advanced Health Professional is to enable experienced healthcare professionals to overtake a role with in-depth and expanded competencies within the healthcare system. The main focus is on managing patient care in complex situations, involving family members and caregivers.

In addition to professoinal and methodological skills, students also acquire social and communication competencies. The scientifically based qualification empowers them to transfer research results into practice and to develop and implement new care concepts. During the accompanying professional internship, students get the opportunity to apply and consolidate the knowledge they have acquired under expert guidance.

Telephone call from a health care professional with a clipboard in her hand. Fotocredit: Adobe Stock
Telephone call from a health care professional with a clipboard in her hand.

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Course Focus

  • Professional role
  • Needs and priorities
  • Diversity and ethics
  • Networking
  • Leadership
  • Empowerment
  • Communication and cooperation
  • Marketing
  • Consultation
  • Screening, assessment, diagnostics, interventions
  • Performance measurement, quality and data management
  • Education
  • National and international health policy
  • Health economics
  • Legal foundations
  • Entrepreneurship
  • Process management and integrated care
  • Digitalised healthcare
  • Case work and case management
  • Concept development
  • Project management
  • Science and research

Impressions

Two people in a hallway are discussing information. One person is in hospital scrubs, the other in street clothes, holding a folder. Fotocredit: Adobe Stock (enlarged view in the gallery)Vertical portrait of a smiling healthcare worker holding documents. Fotocredit: Adobe Stock (enlarged view in the gallery)Senior woman in a video call with a healthcare professional via tablet. Fotocredit: Adobe Stock (enlarged view in the gallery)