Health Service Management Massey University

Overview

The Master of Health Service Management from Massey University gives you the advanced skills to enable you to manage contemporary health issues.

If you work or plan to work in the health or disability sector, this qualification will give you an employment advantage.

Relevant learning

You will:

• Examine contemporary, relevant issues in health service management
• Learn to use the tools available to mitigate or deal with these issues
• Gain in-depth knowledge of areas such as health systems management, policy, economics, information management and informatics
• Gain skills in clearly and concisely communicating findings in oral and written form.

All your courses may contribute to educational requirements for continuing competence for medical and nursing health professional groups as required under the Health Practitioners Competence Assurance Act 2003.

Research-led and industry-focused

Your Massey lecturers and staff are actively researching and have a wide range of experience. Not only across disciplines - like medical, nursing, health informatics, management and policy development, but across community, primary and secondary care.

They will bring this new thinking and practical relevance to your study.

A professional practice applied research project is part of this programme. You may choose to focus on an area of relevance to you. You will gain excellent research skills that can be applied to any health environment.

Effective communication and teamwork

You will learn how to work independently and with teams. You'll improve your interactions with colleagues, clients and other professionals in the field.

An international perspective

Your new knowledge and skills will be relevant to the health sector globally.

This degree is an approved master’s degree for fellowship applications by the Royal Australasian College of Medical Administrators (RACMA) and the Australasian College of Health Informatics (ACHI). The latter depends on the proportion of health informatics taken as part of your master’s programme.

This degree is an approved master’s degree for fellowship applications by the Royal Australasian College of Medical Administrators (RACMA) and the Australasian Institute of Digital Health (AIDH). The latter depends on the proportion of health informatics/digital health taken as part of your master’s programme.

Career

Join one of the largest and most rapidly expanding fields of employment anywhere in the world.

International trends are for employers to reward postgraduate study well, especially in larger enterprises. The skills you learn are increasingly recognised as setting you apart from other potential employees.

This qualification is relevant to you if you are working in, or aiming to work in, management or clinical leadership roles in any part of the health sector.

In the management area, you may be working in general management, human resources, operations management and logistics, digital health or information technology. This is not an exhaustive list.

Clinical leads could be from medical, nursing, pharmacy or other allied health areas in District Health Boards (DHBs), Primary Health Organisations and non-government organisations (NGOs).