SMIMIF116U Value Based Health Care - the future for the health care sector?
Master of Industrial Drug Development - elective
Master of Medicines Regulatory Affairs - elective
The course is pre-approved as an elective course in the professional master's programmes: Master of Industrial Drug Development (MIND) and Master of Medicines Regulatory Affairs (MRA). It is also open to single course students who meet the admission criteria.
Value Based Health Care (VBHC) is a delivery model, where value is defined as the outcomes achieved for patients relative to costs. VBHC focuses on achieving predetermined patient outcomes whilst optimizing the use of resources through integrated healthcare.
This course will address the following:
- Introduction to Value Based Healthcare (VBHC)
- The theory of VBHC and public management theory
- Digital health, what is it?
- Practicing VBHC, examples from the real world
- New players and business models for industry
- The new competition, digital companies and why data is the new gold
- Impact on patients, what are patient relevent outcomes and how are they different from today?
Upon completion of the course participants will have gained the following knowledge, skills and competencies:
Knowledge
- Understand major issues of developing and implementing VBHC initiatives including potential barriers
- Understand how value is created between the various stakeholders
Skills
- Identify key challenges in the development of VBHC and suggest solutions for these
- Discuss rationales for and consequences of VBHC plans and initiatives
- Design and develop novel interdisciplinary approaches within the field of VBHC aimed at improving current practice
Competencies
- Critically reflect upon VBHC proposals and practices
- Communicate VBHC specific issues and proposals to other specialists and stakeholders
- Cooperate within a multi-disciplinary VBHC development project team
• A relevant bachelor degree or equivalent
• A minimum of 2 years of relevant job experience
• Proficiency in English
- Category
- Hours
- Class Instruction
- 40
- Exam
- 20
- Preparation
- 22,5
- Total
- 82,5
- Credit
- 3 ECTS
- Type of assessment
- Written assignmentA written assignment (essay) between 8 and 15 pages long based on an extended literature list.
- Exam registration requirements
Active participation in the course is a prerequisite for assessment and the essay topic must be preapproved by the course directors.
- Aid
- All aids allowed
- Marking scale
- passed/not passed
- Censorship form
- No external censorship
Examiner: Janine M. Traulsen
- Exam period
Deadline for submission of essay is 23 September 2019 at 14:00.
- Re-exam
Will be announced on the MIND and MRA program's webpage
Criteria for exam assesment
To achieve the grade passed, the participant shall (in an adequate level) be able to demonstrate:
Knowledge:
- Describe and discuss the basic principles of VBHC – weighing the pros and cons
Skills for:
- Applying basic VBHC techniques and principles into practical cases
- Identifying realistic tools for introducing VBHC into a given health care environment
Compentencies to:
- Work in a multidisciplinary VBHC team
- Suggest a VBHC approach to improving current practices
- Plan and implement basic VBHC inspired initiatives
Course information
- Language
- English
- Course code
- SMIMIF116U
- Credit
- 3 ECTS
- Level
- Part Time Master
- Duration
- 5 days
- Placement
- Summer
- Schedule
- 19-23 August 2019
- Course capacity
- 25 persons maximum
- Continuing and further education
- Price
DKK 19,900. Fee includes teaching, course materials, all meals during course and examination.
- Study board
- Study Board for the Professionel Master´s Degree Programmes at The Faculty og Health and Medical Science
Contracting department
- Department of Pharmacy
Contracting faculty
- Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences
Course Coordinators
- Janine Marie Traulsen (15-71687570756c357b79687c737a6c75477a7c756b35727c356b72)
Lecturers
Marlene Gyldmark; Janine M. Traulsen; additional teachers - to be announced