MSci Health Management and Leadership - Intercalated Degree

As a medical or dentistry student, you may choose to take a year out from your course to study one of our intercalated programmes. Health Management and Leadership is one of the first of its kind in the UK and provides the opportunity to explore the ways in which management and leadership can shape health services. All doctors are becoming increasingly engaged with management and leadership, whether they work in hospitals, general practice or in the community and whether they assume managerial responsibilities or not; for example, some doctors will, during their career, take on formal managerial responsibilities (eg. clinical director or medical director). This course provides an introduction to the theory and practice of management and leadership in health care settings. During this year you will specialise in a particular subject, acquire skills in analysing and interpreting research papers and also gain substantial, direct experience of novel research. You will develop you own research project, with the support of the programme tutors. You will be responsible for gaining ethical approval, if required (it won’t be required for literature reviews, or when using secondary data), and for recruitments, data collection and analysis, and writing up the project. If you wish to consider publication of you project after the dissertation has been completed, support for that will be available. We are actively exploring the possibility of overseas research projects in Health Management and Leadership - including Europe and South America.