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Leadership and Management (PHTY90107)
Graduate courseworkPoints: 12.5On Campus (Parkville)
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About this subject
- Overview
- Eligibility and requirements
- Assessment
- Dates and times
- Further information
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Contact information
Please refer to the LMS for up-to-date subject information, including assessment and participation requirements, for subjects being offered in 2020.
Overview
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Leadership and Management is designed to help students to develop their leadership skills through knowledge of leadership theory and its application to leadership within physiotherapy and other health professional contexts. This subject will provide students with opportunities to broaden their understanding of the health professional's role beyond clinical practice and its ability to influence the wider healthcare context. It will encourage students to explore and understand leadership styles including personality characteristics and emotional intelligence and how these impact on leadership and management effectiveness. Students will use an innovative and entrepreneurial approach to advocate for change and influence resource allocation within the healthcare context. Management skills including negotiation, team building, conflict management, and advocacy will be enhanced to increase individual organisational effectiveness. In addition, this subject will enable students to understand business principles, marketing and strategic management, and developing business plans, finance skills and how to, engage with compensable bodies and other healthcare stakeholders.
Intended learning outcomes
- Reflect on the application leadership and management theory on the health professionals role within a wider healthcare context
- Demonstrate skills in leadership, innovation and entrepreneurship, team building, conflict management, negotiation and advocacy
- Develop skills in how to influence and engage with compensable bodies and other healthcare stakeholders
- Adapt principles of business leadership and management including marketing, finance, strategy and relationship building for use within the physiotherapy and other healthcare professional contexts
- Use high quality evidence to inform innovative and entrepreneurial practice of physiotherapy and other health professionals to influence resource allocation within a variety of healthcare contexts
- Synthesise research and evidence principles to enhance the quality of service delivery
- Reflect on and demonstrate development of personal leadership and management style that supports best practice development in healthcare contexts
- Probe, explore, analyse and synthesise how leadership can create positive change within a healthcare context
Generic skills
On completion of this subject, students will have had the opportunity to develop skills associated with the DPT graduate attributes including:
- An understanding of organisational governance, the ability to be an active participant in professional organisations, and an appreciation of the benefits of this participation
- Understanding the principles of mentorship and the ability to apply them with colleagues
- an understanding of the principles of team work and the ability to work effectively in a team, including as a leader
- an understanding of the principles of efficient and equitable allocation and use of finite resources in health care systems, locally and globally
Last updated: 3 November 2022
Eligibility and requirements
Prerequisites
None
Corequisites
None
Non-allowed subjects
None
Inherent requirements (core participation requirements)
The University of Melbourne is committed to providing students with reasonable adjustments to assessment and participation under the Disability Standards for Education (2005), and the Assessment and Results Policy (MPF1326). Students are expected to meet the core participation requirements for their course. These can be viewed under Entry and Participation Requirements for the course outlines in the Handbook.
Further details on how to seek academic adjustments can be found on the Student Equity and Disability Support website: http://services.unimelb.edu.au/student-equity/home
Last updated: 3 November 2022
Assessment
Due to the impact of COVID-19, assessment may differ from that published in the Handbook. Students are reminded to check the subject assessment requirements published in the subject outline on the LMS
Description | Timing | Percentage |
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Individual reflection
| End of semester | 15% |
Individual written essay
| First half of the teaching period | 25% |
Individual contribution to a group business proposal (approx. 4 students) 1000 words per student
| End of semester | 40% |
Group pitch on preliminary business proposal; Due end of first theory block
| During the teaching period | 20% |
Last updated: 3 November 2022
Dates & times
- Semester 1 (Extended)
Coordinator Carolyn Cracknell Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours 36 hours of lectures and seminars Total time commitment 170 hours Teaching period 3 February 2020 to 12 June 2020 Last self-enrol date 14 February 2020 Census date 30 April 2020 Last date to withdraw without fail 5 June 2020 Assessment period ends 3 July 2020
Time commitment details
170 hours
Last updated: 3 November 2022
Further information
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Type Name Course Doctor of Physiotherapy - Available through the Community Access Program
About the Community Access Program (CAP)
This subject is available through the Community Access Program (also called Single Subject Studies) which allows you to enrol in single subjects offered by the University of Melbourne, without the commitment required to complete a whole degree.
Entry requirements including prerequisites may apply. Please refer to the CAP applications page for further information.
- Available to Study Abroad and/or Study Exchange Students
This subject is available to students studying at the University from eligible overseas institutions on exchange and study abroad. Students are required to satisfy any listed requirements, such as pre- and co-requisites, for enrolment in the subject.
Last updated: 3 November 2022