Course Overview
This programme provides doctors with a range of professional and transferable skills, enabling them to play a key role in health service modernisation and supporting their career development as future leaders of health services.
It is particularly relevant to doctors in their Foundation year 2 as well as doctors at a more advanced career stage wishing to develop their skills in leading - and advancing - health service planning and delivery.
Participants accommodate the programme alongside their other professional responsibilities and delivery is one module per year over three years. Individual modules are separately recognised and enrolled participants will be able to complete even if they relocate away from the area. Each module requires three separate days' attendance, as well as associated reading and assignment work.
Modules:
- The role of Doctors in leading the modernisation of Health Services
- Leadership and management: organisational perspectives and drivers for change
- Leadership and management: team strategies and perspectives
Key Information
Duration: 12 months part-time
Entry Requirements: Completed application form, a 500 word statement and recommendation from your line manager. We may ask you to undertake a pre-entry assessment. We also offer accreditation of prior learning (APL) both certificated and experiential
IELTS: At least 6.5 overall (with no less than 6.0 in each element) or equivalent
Assessment: Coursework, including learning contracts, project proposals, reports, reflective commentary, and oral presentation
Funding: All applicants should consult www.lancs.ac.uk/pgfunding/
Fees: View details of our current Postgraduate Research fees or Postgraduate Taught fees.
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