Hospital Management
Keywords |
Classification |
Keyword |
OFICIAL |
Medicine |
Instance: 2020/2021 - 2S (of 08-02-2021 to 31-07-2021)
Cycles of Study/Courses
Teaching language
Portuguese
Objectives
Over the last decades the crisis of the Welfare State in European countries led to a different approach with regards healthcare access. Indeed, the economic and financial lack of sustainability of most healthcare systems is a major social and political concern. In this context, the traditional practice of Medicine must be reframed in accordance with the traditional principles of medical ethics – beneficence and non-maleficence – the fundamental values of modern democracies – equity in the access to social goods – but also taking into consideration cost-containment in healthcare. In this vein, the scarcity of resources implies that the medical decision-making process is also determined by opportunity cost criteria. That is, the balance of the sacrifices that will be imposed to other patients by medical decisions. Therefore, medical education should include the basic principles of hospital management that are a determinant for good clinical practice.
Learning outcomes and competences
The syllabus is in accordance with the curricular unit’s intended learning outcomes due to the fact that the main themes from a conceptual and practical approach are presented enabling the student to to an adequate performance level in palliative medicine. In this way coherence with the curricular unit’s intended learning outcomes is demonstrated since the syllabus is a necessary condition so that the student acquires the adequate skills for a true capacitation in this area.
Working method
Presencial
Program
THE HEALTHCARE SECTOR: values of the healthcare system; scarcity of resources; structure and the dilemmas of healthcare sector; importance of the strategic planning; the establishment of priorities in healthcare and theories of distributive justice.
FINANCING OF HEALTHCARE: different systems of financing: systems based on taxes, insurances and the co-payments; different modalities of payment to professionals; international experiences.
THE HEALTHCARE MARKET: market structure, information asymmetry and the agency theory; consumer sovereignty, prices and quality; the uncertainty of the market and variation in clinical practice; health geography.
THE NEW PUBLIC MANAGEMENT AND ENTREPRENEURIALISM IN HEALTHCARE: the traditional model of public administration and the National Health Service; new modalities of hospital management and corporatisation; primary care and essential public health functions.
THE HEALTHCARE REGULATION: theories, models and strategies of of regulation.
Mandatory literature
Rui Nunes, Guilhermina Rego; Prioridades na Saúde , McGraw-Hill, Lisboa, 2002
Guilhermina Rego; Gestão Empresarial dos Serviços Públicos, Uma Aplicação ao Setor da Saúde , Vida Económica, Porto, 2008
Rui Nunes; Regulação da Saúde , Vida Económica, Porto, 2009
Guilhermina Rego, Rui Nunes; Gestão da Saúde , Bisturi Edições Técnicas, Lisboa, 2010
Teaching methods and learning activities
The teaching methodology adopts, theoretical teaching, theoretical-practical teaching, seminars about hospital management and tutorial orientation.
Evaluation Type
Distributed evaluation with final exam
Assessment Components
Designation |
Weight (%) |
Participação presencial |
30,00 |
Trabalho escrito |
70,00 |
Total: |
100,00 |
Amount of time allocated to each course unit
Designation |
Time (hours) |
Frequência das aulas |
13,00 |
Trabalho escrito |
27,50 |
Total: |
40,50 |
Eligibility for exams
Evaluation: a) continuous evaluation: learning throughout the year will happen in the evaluation of the participation of the students in the learning process. This evaluation will be based on the results of mini-tests, answered individually during the theoretical-practical lessons and in the opinion of the professor(s) involved in the learning process of each student (30%) ; b) individual work: It will consist on the evaluation of a paper under the orientation of a professor (70%). The subjects of the work will be presented by the professors at the beginning of the discipline.
Calculation formula of final grade
Final classification: after the approval in the disciplines, the classification will be given according to the sum of the classifications achieved in the continuous evaluation (30%) and in the individual work (70%).