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Leadership and Management (PHTY90107)
Graduate courseworkPoints: 12.5On Campus (Parkville)
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- Eligibility and requirements
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Semester 1 (Early-Start)
Overview
| Availability | Semester 1 (Early-Start) |
|---|---|
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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
The DPT curriculum has been designed around 7 Learning outcomes.
- Reflect on the application leadership and management theory on the health professional's role within a wider healthcare context.
- Demonstrate skills in leadership, innovation and entrepreneurship, team building, conflict management, negotiation and advocacy.
- 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: 31 January 2024
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: 31 January 2024
Assessment
| Description | Timing | Percentage |
|---|---|---|
Individual Leadership ePortfolio
| End of semester | 35% |
Group pitch on preliminary business proposal; 15 minutes (1500 word equivalence)
| Due end of first theory block | 30% |
Group delivery of teamwork activity at teamwork workshop; 20 Minutes (1750 word equivalence)
| End of the teaching period | 35% |
Last updated: 31 January 2024
Dates & times
- Semester 1 (Early-Start)
Coordinators Aiden Smart and Mark Merolli Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours 36 hours of lectures and seminars Total time commitment 170 hours Teaching period 22 January 2024 to 26 May 2024 Last self-enrol date 2 February 2024 Census date 3 April 2024 Last date to withdraw without fail 3 May 2024 Assessment period ends 21 June 2024 Semester 1 (Early-Start) contact information
Time commitment details
170 hours
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Last updated: 31 January 2024
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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: 31 January 2024