Schedules and Program 

MODULE 1. UNDERSTANDING HEALTHCARE SYSTEMS (Pre-course)
January 2024 (Asynchronous online lessons – available any time)

Topics:

• Healthcare Systems: an international overview
• Providers of care: Primary, secondary, and tertiary healthcare settings
• Epidemiological Trends and new frontiers in managing chronic conditions
• Financing healthcare services: the challenge of value-based healthcare
• Introduction to Health Technology Assessment (HTA)
• Big data, Artificial Intelligence and machine learning
• Getting funded: Horizon Europe and other international grants

MODULE 2. HEALTHCARE MANAGEMENT
18-27 March 2024 - Catholic University Rome campus
Topics:

• Emerging strategies to face global challenges
• The post-pandemic scenario in healthcare
• Information Management Systems in healthcare
• Digital ecosystems in healthcare
• Trends in organizational design of international healthcare systems
• Hospital organizational design
• The Revolution of Telemedicine and new frontiers in the provision of care
• Health workforce planning: opportunities and threats
• Managing human resources through innovative approaches
• People, performance, Potential matrix and Talent Management
• The competency model approach
• Operations management
• Social event(s)

MODULE 3. MANAGERIAL ACCOUNTING, CONTROL SYSTEMS AND LEADERSHIP
22-26 April 2024 – Online
20-24 May 2024 – Online
17-21 June 2024 – Online

Topics:

• Managerial accounting and performance management systems
• Dimensions of Hospital Performance
• Integrated Evaluation Systems and Strategies
• Developing leadership competencies and soft skills
• Conflict management
• Emergency management

MODULE 4. FOCUS GROUPS

9 and 13 September 2024 – Online

23 and 27 September 2024 – Online

30 September and 4 October 2024 – Online

• Focus group 1: Designing sustainable healthcare systems
• Focus group 2: Digital Ecosystems and new frontiers in ICT
• Focus group 3: New professional roles and workforce planning

MODULE 5. TRANSLATING THEORY INTO PRACTICE

7 October – 12 October 2024 – External location

• Presentation of local challenges
• Seminars and Laboratories
• Question and answer session with local authorities and stakeholders
• Project work
• Social event(s)