Program name: | Health Care Administration |
Study Level: | Graduate |
Program leader: | Vasadze Otar |
Study language: | Georgian |
Qualification: | MA in Public Health and Health Polic |
Program capacity: | 120 |
Program permission: | Admission of the students to the second level of higher education (Master’s program) is carried out based on the results of Unified national Exams or the Order of the Minister of Education and Science of Georgia (№224/N, December 29, 2011) on the basis of successful passing of internal university exam (in English language) and oral interview in the specialty, administrative registration and Order of the Rector. Graduates of Bachelor or single-cycle programs in wide range of healthcare and social welfare will also be enrolled in the program. |
Program goals: | Preparing high qualified administrators (Primary Healthcare, different levels of Hospital and special Medical Services, Health Insurance). That can be reached with the experiences of research- teaching in and outside the country, the modern methods of teaching and modern literature and researches and practices in the leader Medical Institutions and Public works |
Methods for Attaining Learning Outcomes: | • Lectures and seminars • Working on book • Explanation method • Demonstration method • Application of video and audio learning materials • Interactive sessions • Situational tasks • Discussion of novelties • Problem formulation and solution • Conducting minor research • Critical analysis • Discussion • Group tasks • Projects • Problem solving oriented assignments • Case study and analysis • Literature review • Searching the relevant material in electronic format or library • Writing essays • Making presentations • Verbal, or oral method • Induction, deduction, analysis and synthesis |
Learning outcomes: | Knowledge and understanding Skills |
Date of approval: | 10-30-2006 |
Approval protocol number: | 4 |
Date of program update: | |
Update protocol number: | 36-14 |
Program details: | In the field of health administration, the student performs research, writes abstracts and projects, makes presentations of the obtained results. |
Teaching Process Characteristics: | In order to obtain the academic degree Master of Health Management, the student needs to accumulate 120 ECTS, which means school subjects - 24 ECTS; The main subjects of the program – 72 ECTS (including the completion of the master's thesis – 30 ECTS), defined and optional subjects – 24 ECTS, which the student chooses from the 72 ECTS of the offered subjects. |
Code | Subject | ECTS | Semester |
PHMA5110 | Public Health and Health care Policy | 6 | 1 |
PHMA5210 | Health Management | 6 | 1 |
PHMA5220 | Health Economics and Insurance | 6 | 2 |
PHMA6150 | Bioethics and Health Legislation | 6 | 2 |
Credits sum: | 24 |
Code | Subject | ECTS | Semester |
ECON5110 | Managerial Economics | 6 | 1 |
LAWP5250 | Legal Forms of Administrative Organs Activity | 6 | 1 |
PHMA5240 | Epidemiological and Socio-statistical Research Methods | 6 | 1 |
HELM5220 | Quality Assurance and Improvement in Health Care | 6 | 2 |
HELM5230 | Management of Health Services and Systems | 6 | 2 |
HELM6110 | Healthcare Organizational Leadership | 6 | 2 |
HELM6120 | Managing Human Resources in Healthcare | 6 | 3 |
HELM6220 | Master’s Thesis in Health Management | 30 | 4 |
Credits sum: | 72 |
Code | Subject | ECTS | |
ACCT5110 | Financial Accounting | 6 | |
FINA6150 | Financial Strategies and Risk Management | 6 | |
HELM5210 | Principals of Managed Care | 6 | |
HELM6130 | Modern Hospital Management | 6 | |
HELM6140 | Marketing Health Insurance Products and Services | 6 | |
HELM6150 | Medical Practice Administration | 6 | |
HELM6161 | Public Health Service Planning and Marketing | 6 | |
HELM6170 | Long Term Care Administration | 6 | |
HELM6180 | Operations Management in Healthcare | 6 | |
HELM6190 | Managerial Epidemiology | 6 | |
PHMA6170 | The Human Body’s Structure and Medical Terminology | 6 | |
STAT5111 | Business Statistics | 6 | |
Credits sum: | 72 |
Evaluation system
Weekly review |
24 point / 24%; |
Research Paper |
16 point/ 16%; |
Midterm exams |
25 point / 25%; |
Final exam |
35 point / 35% |
Point | GPA | The university assessment | The general assessment in Georgia | |
97-100 | 4,00 | A+ | A | Excellent |
94-96 | 3,75 | A | ||
91-93 | 3,50 | A- | ||
87-90 | 3,25 | B+ | Very good | |
84-86 | 3,00 | B | B | |
81-83 | 2,75 | B- | ||
77-80 | 2,50 | C+ | C | good |
74-76 | 2,25 | C | ||
71-73 | 2,00 | C- | ||
67-70 | 1,75 | D+ | D | Satisfactory |
64-66 | 1,50 | D | ||
61-63 | 1,25 | D- | ||
51-60 | 1,00 | E | E | Sufficient |
Not passed | ||||
41-50 | FX | FX | Insufficient | |
<40 | F | F | Failed |