This Diploma of Community Health Care Administration and Management is designed to provide participants with foundational theories, principles and skills essential for making administrative and management decisions in the various functional aspects of hospitals and health care organizations including marketing, finance, management and organizational behaviour, human resource management, planning, etc. Participants will be required to apply the principles, theories, and skills covered in the program to real life organizations.
Students planning to study this program must be in the Health Care industry or planning to work in the industry. To be awarded the Diploma of Community Health Care Administration and Management, students must complete Stage 1 (Certificate) and Stage 2 (Diploma).
Stage 1 – Certificate of Community Health Care Administration and Management
CHCM 1010 Principles of Administration and Management
CHCM 1020 Fundamentals of Marketing
CHCM 1030 Principles of Human Resource Management
CHCM 1040 Administrative Leadership and Decision Making
CHCM 1050 Advertising and Marketing Communications
CHCM 1060 Hospital Administration and Health Care Management I
Stage 2 – Diploma of Community Health Care Administration and Management
DHCM 2010 Human Resource Administration in Health Care Organizations
DHCM 2020 Hospital and Health Care Finance
DHCM 2030 Hospital Administration and Health Care Management II
DHCM 2040 Marketing of Hospital and Health Care Organizations
DHCM 2050 Strategic Planning Formulation in Hospitals and Health Care Management I
DHCM 2060 Strategic Planning Implementing in Hospitals and Health Care Management II
Duration: The Diploma program may be completed in 4-6 trimesters. Each year is divided into 3 trimesters and each trimester is 13 weeks duration. Students can commence study in the middle of January, May or September of every year. Students can study between 2-4 units per trimester.
