The focus is on hospital management. The exercise of leading positions in the health care service and welfare requires extensive abilities and knowledge. Graduates of the master degree progamme dispose of the necessary technical-, social-communicative, leadership- and management competence to lead teams in public health service professionally
Health economy; guidance in expert\'s organisations; structures and processes in the health care service; quality- , risk- and project management; science and research; business administration; enterprise project; strategical management; innovative changes in the health service – Best practice; multiprofessionalism in the hospital
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).
