Language
  • English
Format
  • Full time
  • Part time
Start date
  • September
Location
  • Maastricht
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Healthcare Policy, Innovation and Management

Healthcare is facing rising demands and limited resources. In this master’s, you’ll learn to design innovative solutions, manage health services, and lead transformations for sustainable, equitable care. 

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Why this programme

Internationally, the need for innovation in health care has never been greater. Demographic shifts, technological advancements, and increasing resource shortages create a need for novel solutions to ensure high-quality care for all. The master Healthcare Policy, Innovation and Management, HPIM, prepares students to become critical thinkers, who analyse the complex problems facing modern health systems from different theoretical perspectives, design innovative solutions, and lead the necessary transformations towards a sustainable future.

This programme is for you if you:

  • are eager to develop essential competencies to spur innovation in the health domain;
  • want to organise health services and systems in a future-proof and equitable way;
  • are motivated to make a real impact on the sustainability of health care.

A multidisciplinary perspective on innovation in health (care)

HPIM is an internationally unique programme that equips you with a multidisciplinary knowledge base relevant to innovation in the health domain. In two parallel Knowledge Tracks, you’ll be introduced to theories and topics from the disciplines of health(care) economics, governance, management, and organisation studies. The Organisation & Management of Health Services track teaches you how to innovate healthcare processes, strategically manage a health service organisation, and design the healthcare delivery of the future. In the Economics & Governance of Health and Care track, you will learn how to analyse the economic context of health(care) innovation, develop a policy to improve population health and care, and design sustainable healthcare coverage together with stakeholders. Understanding both the organisation- and system-level of health care is essential to successfully improve, renew and transform health services and systems.

Competency-based education approach

During the curriculum, you work on seven Authentic Professional Tasks: complex, real-world cases that are illustrative of the kind of tasks HPIM graduates fulfil once they enter the professional field. In completing these tasks, you develop essential competencies – as Expert, Investigator, Innovator, Collaborator, and Professional – which future employers expect you to have. The HPIM Skills Track ensures that you are trained in a range of relevant skills, from research methods and academic writing to effective teamwork, personal leadership, critical thinking, and co-design.

Professional development

HPIM focuses on your employability with the Professional Development Track, designed to help you build your professional values, identify your areas for growth, and personalise your learning experience accordingly. You will benefit from career events, individual and group coaching, peer support, and gain dedicated time for reflection and professional skills development. You will also take part in a full-time introduction week in September to get to know the programme, learn about our educational approach, and meet the diverse, international classroom of HPIM.

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