In 2025 this course is only available as an exit award from the Master of Health Service Management.
If you are interested in the field of Health Service, please check out the Master of Advanced Practice (Specialisation), Graduate Diploma of Advanced Practice, or Graduate Certificate in Advanced Practice.
Please contact Future Students at course.info@utas.edu.au or call us on 138827 if you have any further questions about this or any other UTAS course.
Overview 2025
This course may not be available to international students. Please see the list of distance courses (i.e. online and taken outside Australia) that are offered to international students
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Some of Australia's leading senior health service executives teach into the units. Students are therefore exposed to a level of unparalleled experience and real-world case-studies.
The course is a pathway to the Graduate Diploma in Health Service Management, the Master of Health Service Management and the Master of Health Information Management.
This course is full fee-paying, which means that you will be charged at the full fee-paying rate listed for each unit.
All units are delivered primarily off campus (by distance), with non-mandatory, supporting intensive seminars in Sydney.
For more information about the Australian Institute of Health Service Management (AIHSM) including our people and our industry partners please visit our webpages at: https://www.utas.edu.au/business-and-economics/disciplines-and-institutes/australian-institute-of-health-service-management
Key contacts
| Current student enrolment questions and advice | UConnect |
| Course Coordinator | Dr Nazlee Siddiqui |
Course objectives
The Graduate Certificate in Health Service Management is designed to provide health service management professionals from both the public and private sectors with rigorous training focussed on issues of contemporary professional health service management practice.
Learning outcomes
Course structure
Choose from the following
This unit allows students to develop the methodological framework and tools by which to undertake a translational research project addressing a contemporary healthcare management issue. Students will conceptualise and prepare their project applying the values and principles of research integrity,…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
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| Online | Semester 2 | ||||
View all details for BAA722 Research Methods in Health Management
This unit provides students an opportunity to plan a translational research project addressing a contemporary healthcare management issue. Students will examine research theories and frameworks to be able to articulate and justify a rigorous research design. Students will develop skills…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Online | Semester 2 | ||||
This unit provides students an opportunity to conduct and report upon a translational research project addressing a contemporary healthcare management issue. Students will be responsible for the effective management of their research team, involving industry and academic supervisors. Students are…
Credit Points: 12.5
This unit is currently unavailable.
View all details for BAA738 Health Management Research Thesis
The unit provides students with an opportunity to develop the skills and capacity to apply integrated care in healthcare contexts. Students will draw on theories, models and tools from the literature of integrated care and assess their application in the…
Credit Points: 12.5
This unit is currently unavailable.
This unit offers an introduction to the practice of evidence informed decision making in health organisation management and research. Students will develop the skills to critically appraise scientific evidence to inform and improve decision-making. The relationship between managerial epidemiology and…
Credit Points: 12.5
This unit is currently unavailable.
View all details for BAA751 Evidence Informed Decision Making
The unit enables students to examine the foundation of integrated care in health and across Australian communities. There is a specific focus on investigating inter-professional collaboration and practice for the delivery of whole of person care. Students will examine and…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Online | Semester 1 | ||||
| ECA Melbourne | Semester 1 | ||||
This unit allows students to examine the link between ethics, legislation and governance. The unit will investigate the need for ethics to inform legislation, the translation of that legislation into policy, and how policy is enacted through governance. The unit…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
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| Online | Semester 2 | ||||
View all details for BAA753 Health Ethics, Law and Governance
This unit examines the theories and frequently used techniques of economics, financial and managerial accounting in healthcare organisations. Public and private funding issues will be examined, across the acute, primary and aged care sectors. Students will apply this knowledge to…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
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| Online | Semester 2 | ||||
View all details for BAA754 Health Finance, Economics and Accounting
The unit examines internal and external factors that shape micro, mecro, maso and system behaviours in healthcare. Students will scrutinise how the operation of healthcare organisations is determined by stakeholder expectations. Critical organisational issues will be investigated including attitudes, satisfaction,…
Credit Points: 12.5
This unit is currently unavailable.
View all details for BAA755 Healthcare Organisational Behaviour
In this unit, you’ll explore the critical roles of leaders, managers, governing bodies, staff, consumers, and the community in delivering safe, high-quality healthcare services. Effective governance structures, frameworks and systems will be evaluated, emphasising safety and quality requirements. By understanding…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
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| Online | Semester 1 | ||||
| ECA Melbourne | Semester 1 | ||||
View all details for BAA756 Healthcare Systems, Safety and Quality
This unit investigates theories and strategies for managing and improving complex adaptive healthcare organisations. Models of healthcare organisations will be introduced to analyse their structure, functions, processes and limitations. Complex adaptive systems thinking will be applied to healthcare organisations to…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
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| ECA Melbourne | Semester 1 | ||||
View all details for BAA757 Managing Complex Adaptive Healthcare Organisations
This unit investigates management concepts and theories to improve the integration and functionality of healthcare organisations. Strategies to improve the management of an organisation for enhanced care quality and equitable services will be discussed. A range of management issues are…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
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| ECA Melbourne | Semester 2 | ||||
View all details for BAA758 Leading and Managing Healthcare Organisations
This unit examines the foundational health information management categorical frameworks, terms and design processes. In technical language, the unit investigates the theory and practice related to clinical classification, terminologies, and ontology development. Issues to be investigated include: a critical assessment…
Credit Points: 12.5
This unit is currently unavailable.
View all details for BAA760 Health Ontologies, Terminologies, and Classifications
Managers need an understanding of statistics for five key reasons: to properly collect, present, describe and interpret information; to draw valid conclusions from incomplete data - typically about large populations based only on information obtained from samples; to obtain reliable…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
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| Hobart | Semester 1 | ||||
| Online | Semester 1 | ||||
| ECA Melbourne | Semester 1 | ||||
View all details for BEA674 Data and Business Decision Making
The effective management of human resources is becoming an increasingly vital concern in organisations, whether they are professional practices employing only a few staff, multinational corporations, public sector or not-for-profit organisations. The impact of globalisation, increased competition for talented employees,…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
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| Hobart | Semester 1 | ||||
| Online | Semester 1 | ||||
Entry requirements
For Domestic students
Applicants must have:
a) Australian Bachelor Degree or equivalent level standard in any other institution in an unrelated discipline and a minimum of one year relevant work experience in the health sector
OR
b) A minimum of five years approved relevant work experience in the health sector or other special circumstances (e.g. post-secondary qualifications) as approved by the Dean or delegated authority.
Credit transfer
This course articulates with full credit to the Graduate Diploma of Health Service Management, Master of Health Service Management and Master of Health Information Management.
Fees & scholarships
Domestic students
This is a full-fee course, which means you’ll need to pay the full amount for your studies. Commonwealth Supported Places are not available in this course. However, there are still support options available for eligible students to help you manage the cost of studying this course.
You may be able to fund all or part of your tuition fees by accessing a FEE-HELP loan from the Australian Government. FEE-HELP is a loan scheme that assists domestic full-fee students to pay for University, which is repaid through the Australian Tax System once you earn above a repayment threshold. This means you’ll only have to start repaying the loan once you start earning above a specific amount
Our scholarships and prizes program also offers more than 400 scholarships across all areas of study. You can even apply for multiple scholarships in one easy application.
Further informationDetailed fee information for domestic students is available at Scholarships, fees and costs, including additional information in relation to the compulsory Student Services and Amenities Fee (SSAF).
Scholarships
For information on general scholarships available at the University of Tasmania, please visit the scholarships website.
How can we help?
Do you have any questions about choosing a course or applying? Get in touch.
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- International
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