At the end of the course the student
- understands main transformative forces and is able to reflect and explain how these induce organisational changes and might affect the real-world working environment of (bio)medical professionals.
- understands what healthcare systems are and what they do. They can mention why and how ‘big’ trends challenge the functioning of the Dutch health system and what is needed for them to reach a new and better balance.
- is able to apply the main concepts and principles of health economics, policy, law, management, and normative decision criteria to proposals to change healthcare systems and models of care .
- has knowledge about different management strategies that can be used to design their new sustainable model-of-care and is able to explain how this solves healthcare challenges in an efficient way.
- Is able to apply case-study and mixed method methodologies (including HTA) in designing a new sustainable model-of-care that effectively builds and complements the institutional constraints of the broader Dutch healthcare system.
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For you as a future (bio)medical professional it is increasingly important to understand the basic concepts of how healthcare systems work (governance, models of care and models of business) and how its institutions are organized (financing, regulations, policies, decision making). Not only as a practitioner but also in future research, you should be able to positively embed your working goals within the wider healthcare system that comes with all kinds of specific constraints. Furthermore, you will find jobs ranging across a broad spectrum that range from consultants to surgeons. In these roles you also will have to manage ‘business’ aspects of healthcare provision, such as financial sustainability or the development of new models of care. A good understanding of these topics is therefore essential for (bio)medical students.
This minor will give you the opportunity to gain a better understanding of healthcare systems and finance, but in a practical way. It will do this by forming a learning community of future practitioners and researchers. Learning how to tackle common institutional constraints for innovative approaches from a (bio)medical perspective is what makes this minor unique. Thus, a truly interdisciplinary approach – bridging medicine and biomedical sciences with its social context - is as the forefront of this minor.
At the start of the minor you assimilate yourselves with relevant trends in different healthcare fields that might spur the development of new models of care: chronic diseases, public health, and elective care. Established expert staff from Radboudumc will guide you to main process innovations such as care networks, digital health, minimal invasive surgery, hospital at home and possible effective models of care needed in order to effectively implement these innovations. At the end of the minor you have written a case report on what these changes would demand of specific transitions of the health care system.
Key words
Transformative healthcare systems – models of care - health economics, policy, and law – HTA -health care delivery and management
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