Diploma in Health Services Administration - Online - Dalhousie University - I1729

The Diploma in Health Services Administration (DHSA) program is designed to prepare students for a career in health care at the managerial level. It meets the needs of students interested in health services administration and of those currently employed in the health care sector in a managerial capacity, particularly, middle managers in medium and large institutions, administrators in small facilities, and employees in community health, long-term care, primary care, multi-service centres, and community health boards. The program provides a conceptual background for the increasingly complex managerial tasks performed in health institutions, agencies, and health-related government departments. Every effort is made to balance political, social, economic, cultural, medical, and ethical approaches to understanding the health care delivery system with those of the management sciences.

Diploma in Health Services Administration

The one-year program features both an academic and results-oriented curriculum. Students accepted into the DHSA program take the following half-credit classes:

Fall term
            
•     HESA 4000.03: Canadian Health Care Delivery System
•     HESA 4001.03: Management Roles and Competencies
•     HESA 4002.03: Health Human Resource Management
•     HESA 4004.03: Health Care Planning
•     HLTH 4040.03: Health Law for Non-Lawyers

Winter term
            
•     HESA 4003.03: Quality Management
•     HESA 4005.03: Health Care Financial Management
•     HESA 4200.03: Epidemiology for Managers

Summer term
            
•     HESA 4400.03: Introduction to Health Care Economics
•     One half credit elective as approved by the School