Online MSc Healthcare Leadership | University of Hull Online

Course overview

Healthcare is an exciting, complex field to be involved in – but delivering an effective, compassionate health service requires strong leadership and a future-proof vision.

Our Healthcare Leadership MSc course explores leadership and healthcare challenges in a global context and is based on the very latest research. The skills and knowledge you’ll develop can immediately be applied to your current job, and this academic journey will help you enhance both your own practice and that of your colleagues.

Why choose this course?

Grounded in practice

The analytical skills and insight you pick up on the course can be used straight away to tackle current and future challenges.

Radical self-development

The knowledge and skills you acquire will foster critical self-reflection and consideration of your overall impact as a leader.

A global perspective

With insights and research shared from across the globe, you’ll find innovative ways of tackling the industry’s most pressing issues.

On the MSc, you'll:

Study modules that focus on the Self as Leader, Supporting Change, Innovation and Problem-Solving, and Global Perspectives on Healthcare Policy.
Intelligently explore and debate the ways in which problem-solving and innovation can be harnessed effectively.
Develop an in-depth understanding of the role that leaders have in ensuring maximum safety and quality for healthcare.
Compare healthcare frameworks and policies from across the globe, analysing their benefits and priorities.

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Dr Patrick Marshall: So, my name is Patrick Marshall, Doctor Patrick Marshall, and I am the Programme Director for the MSc in Healthcare Leadership at the University of Hull, and it's their online offer.

What makes this MSc really stand out?

We've shifted quite quickly and quite radically in terms of how you can actually deliver high quality postgraduate learning. And I think that's one of the key features and certainly why here doing this is because it's an exciting place to be.

And indeed, this MSc's also got a global reach. So one of modules, you know, refers to the global perspective, which I think is really important, that understanding of the global context, you know, we are one planet and the way we solve problems, you know, may well have been worked out by other people, rather than we've got to reinvent the wheel again. I think is really important.

What will students learn from this course?

I mean, for me, one of the most profound skills that all postgraduate education gives you is reflection. This is a much deeper form of looking at a situation from a critical point of view, and that basically means going underneath the depths of something. So it's not just, it is acknowledging the emotional impact, but it's also understanding all the moving parts of a of a problem. That professional reflection is a fundamental part of what all Masters studies are, particularly this one.

The art of leadership, and I do believe it's an art, is that you can somehow navigate all of those different and dynamic moving parts of a problem. You can deal with people in a way which is appropriate and authentic and real and compassionate, and you can achieve for your customers, your patients, the people who are you are receiving your services, something which actually makes a difference.