Management for Health Professionals - main focus on hospital management

Job description

Institutions in the health care sector are complex structures and a polyvalent education is necessary to manage them. Managers in the middle- and top management in the health care sector have a profound interdisciplinary expertise and distinguish themselves by their leadership- and management expertise. These show institutional responsibility as well as in the friendly and respectful contact with employees, colleagues and patients. Graduates are thus in a position to actively help establish work conditions in health care sector facilities and to deal critically with different work environments.

The expertise gained within the master´s programme enables the students to take on a management function in health care sector institutions.

Graduates can move into management positions in the middle- and top management in hospitals, retirement and care homes as well as in other health care institutions. There are also interesting job possibilities in the field of public administration and the social insurances.

How do you become a manager in healthcare?

Anyone wanting to take on a management and leadership role in healthcare - especially in the hospital sector - should start the Master's programme in Management for Health Professionals - main focus on hospital management at the University of Applied Sciences for Health Professions Upper Austria in Linz. A relevant Bachelor's degree is required. The four-semester career-enabling programme finishes with the academic degree Master of Science in Health Studies (MSc). The programme combines scientific knowledge with practical experience and teaches social, problem-solving, and scientific competencies as well as management and leadership skills. In addition, healthcare and nursing students can acquire the recognised additional qualification “Specialisation for Leadership Tasks” in accordance with the Health and Nursing Care Act by combining the elective module “Care Management” (third semester) with the additional module “Science and Profession” (fourth semester).