Masters (Coursework)
There are significant pressures on current health services both locally and broadly. Increased demand for services, driven by factors including the ageing population, expensive technology, and increasing consumer expectations, is leading to rising health expenditure, and poorer outcomes for patients, families, staff and organisations.
Waste in healthcare is also a big issue. Hospital employees typically spend a high percentage of their time on unproductive activities, or tasks that are not improving patient outcomes. For example, medical/surgical nurses in hospitals around the world typically spend only about 30% of their time on direct patient care.
Our flexible, online course is designed to give you the skills, knowledge, and confidence you need to tackle these challenges head-on. Designed to fit around the existing commitments of busy professionals, you will learn to create sustainable, achievable, and impactful redesign solutions to the numerous constraints and issues inherent in health service delivery across primary, secondary, and tertiary healthcare, such as protracted wait times, care coordination and integration, access and referral across services, and timely treatment and discharge.
In the third year, you will select from three pathways - research, coursework, or professional practice (leadership development) - to specialise your learning, and explore topics relevant to your workplace, experience, and interest.
Optional face to face masterclasses are also available to take your knowledge further, and offer networking opportunities with your peers.
As a graduate, you'll be armed with contemporary skills and knowledge to be an agent of positive change in your workplace.
Completed undergraduate degree at AQF7 level from an Australian higher education provider in a health or human welfare studies and services field, or equivalent overseas qualification,
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Completed undergraduate degree at AQF7 level from an Australian higher education provider in any discipline (or equivalent overseas qualification) AND at least five years relevant professional and/or industry experience in a health or human welfare studies and services field.
Admission to most postgraduate coursework courses at the University of Tasmania require qualifications equivalent to an Australian bachelor degree. Applicants must achieve the required grade in their qualifying studies, meet any prerequisite subjects, and meet English language requirements to be eligible for an offer.
English Language Requirements
For students who do not meet the English Language Requirement through citizenship, evidence of an approved English language test completed within the last 2 years must be provided. See the English Language Requirements page for more information.
Course Specific Requirements
Healthcare Redesign is for everyone. Nurses, allied health professionals, pathology staff, paramedics, oral health service providers, radiology staff, medical staff, leadership and administrators, and the wide breadth of occupations that exist in the support services. These and more can deliver real, lasting change to their organisations with Healthcare Redesign skills and knowledge.
With a focus on real-world application, our graduates have been affecting evidence-led change for the benefit of consumers, staff, and organisations in Australia, and around the world.
You may be redesigning leadership and administration systems, actioning quality improvement, or reducing waste. Waste is a major issue in health care, estimated to consume up to 30% of total healthcare budgets*. Every dollar misspent, minute wasted, or item discarded means less resources for meeting patient needs. When you graduate, you'll be well prepared to address waste in all its forms, which is critical to support the healthcare system meet both its current needs, and the emerging needs of the future.
Graduates with these capabilities are in high demand throughout the sector, at all levels, private and public, as positive, redesign-driven change can be created anywhere.
Health policy, administration and expenditure, Submission to the Senate Select Committee on Health.
The Master of Healthcare Redesign is the capstone course for a learning journey that starts with a Graduate Certificate in year one, articulates to a Graduate Diploma in year two, and finishes with the Master level specialisations in year three. As a fully nested series of courses, you can enter or exit at any level, relevant to your personal circumstances.
You may choose to complete the entire degree full-time in three years, or take a staged approach with breaks between courses to consolidate knowledge, and implement your redesign solutions practically in your workplace.
Coursework Pathway
Through units in global health systems, and health policy, economics and advocacy, you build towards a capstone unit where you will propose and complete a project that demonstrates your discipline knowledge, problem-solving capability, and applied research skills through the development of a proposed solution to healthcare redesign problem relevant to your organisation and/or career aspirations.
This specialisation focusses on projects that delivery quality improvement outcomes, ensuring that at the conclusion of your studies you can deliver real, immediate benefits.
Research Pathway
In this specialisation you will complete a substantial piece of original, independent research, building on and focussed on the topics that are of particular interest to you. You will design your own project, which can be relevant to your organisation, or on a topic you are passionate about. We will support you to develop and refine your research question and aim, and teach you to capture relevant data, how to write and publish, and how to consolidate your findings into translational research that can create actionable outcomes.
In addition to your major research project, you will pick an elective unit from a range that align to key issues requiring attention in the healthcare sector.
Professional Practice Pathway
Designed for senior leaders within the healthcare sector, you will focus on a project from a leadership perspective, and concurrently receive intensive leadership development through two dedicated student mentors, one from a local leadership group, and one from the Institute of Managers and Leaders.
Entry to this specialisation is via interview, with candidates considered inclusive of their experience, and demonstrated ability to have a high level of commitment.
The content focusses on a redesign project relevant to your organisation, and is supported by:
Throughout both the online and in-person activities you will have significant engagement opportunities with our team of passionate clinicians and academics who have decades of contemporary, real-world expertise in healthcare redesign, and health leadership.
Applications for credit can be made in your course application. Find out more information about how to apply for a credit transfer/advanced standing at Recognition of Prior Learning.