Master's Degree in Health Service Administration

There is a need for training in health administration since this is a professional area that is not dealt with on undergraduate programmes nor in specialised medicine.

This advanced university programme on Health Service Administration, promoted and designed with the support of the institutions sponsoring the former Doctor Robert Foundation, now integrated within the UAB Foundation, is conceived to fill the need of academic training on this field.

Career opportunities

- Managers of primary healthcare centres, hospitals, public health, health and social services centres, care centres for dependent persons, drug addiction or mental health, and emergency services.
- Managers of companies providing healthcare organisations with support for communications, financial management, human resources and general services.
- Professionals working in healthcare planning and health service management.
- Professionals working in health service contracting.
- Managers of companies engaged temporarily or permanently in the provision of risk management services. Especially in the area of occupational health. - Institutional heads of healthcare and social services.
- Health sector managers in general: Pharmacy, orthopedic sector, insurance and consultancies.

Internships

UAB masters and graduate diplomas may include or facilitate external academic internships in companies or institutions in order to help the student to achieve a level of expertise that facilitates the insertion or promotion in the workplace.

The internships related to the Master's Degree in Health Service Administration are curricular (compulsory): they are included in the curriculum of the studies and, therefore, must be overcome to obtain the degree. The programme manager will give the master's students all the details about internships.

Scholarships and financial aid

At the UAB grants' website you will find information on financial aids, grants, competitions, prizes and subsidies for the university community.

Chek all the information in the page for UAB financial aids, grants and calls.

Coordinating centres

Escuela Fundación Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona-Formación

Collaborating centres

Departamento de Medicina

Contact

Marina Lahoz Portolés

Phone: 620960995

Gestió Acadèmica

Phone: 935929710

Additional information

https://www.uab.cat/fundaciouab

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