Master degree program
Business Administration in Health Care

Business Administration in Health Care

QUALIFICATION

  • MBA - Master of Business Administration (MBA)

MODEL OF GRADUATING STUDENT

ON1 to develop models for making optimal management decisions that ensure the effective functioning and development of guaranteed free medical care and the market of paid medical services;
ON2 to form an organizational structure and to build a production flow and a logistic system corresponding to the strategy, goals, objectives and internal, external conditions of the health organization.
ON3 to prepare personnel policies and standards on the concept of selection, placement, motivation and development of personnel based on the systematization, processing and analysis of data on the state of the labor market, wages, modern methods of motivation and social programs of health organization;
ON4 to form a dividend policy and the most advantageous structure of financial assets, establish the optimal structure of liabilities and borrowed funds, identify key areas of expenditure of health organization’s resources, monitor financial performance indicators.
ON4 to apply modern business intelligence tools, Big Data analysis methods to optimize the company's work, reduce costs and increase profits.
ON5 develop marketing programs and brand promotion strategies based on the correct use of strategic marketing tools and promotion of medical services.
ON6 to create a system for analyzing the situation and processes related to the key functional areas of health organization: developing and implementing company development strategies, managing people and organizations, managing quality in the healthcare system, finance, innovation, operations and change management, project management;
ON7 to make a feasibility study of a project to attract investments in the health sector, to determine the net present value, profitability index, internal rate of return, project payback period.
ON8 to develop its own model of effective management of human resources and organizational behavior, including motivation, leadership, group dynamics, conflict management and high corporate culture and social responsibility of business.
ON9 analyze financial and accounting and reporting data and use them as sources of information, formed for carrying out economic calculations and strategy implementation;
ON11 to build a personal growth program that will contribute to the development of instrumental, interpersonal, systemic, personal competencies, management skills - leadership, goal-setting, decision-making, time management, the ability to think globally and constantly expand the planning horizon.
ON12 to conduct a dialogue with the media, government and public structures and employers on management issues, types, methods, management consulting technologies, areas of application of these methods and their limitations.

Program passport

Speciality Name
Business Administration in Health Care
Speciality Code
7M04110
Faculty
Al-farabi business school

disciplines

Business research
  • Number of credits - 3
  • Type of control - RK + Exam (100)
  • Description - The goal of the discipline is to develop skills in analyzing and assessing consumer behavior, the competitive environment by conducting independent research using various methods of macro and microeconomic analysis. The following will be studied: the main characteristics of business research; forecasting and planning in business research.

Business research
  • Number of credits - 3
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The goal of the discipline is to develop skills in analyzing and assessing consumer behavior, the competitive environment by conducting independent research using various methods of macro and microeconomic analysis. The following will be studied: the main characteristics of business research; forecasting and planning in business research.

Organizational behavior and leadership
  • Number of credits - 5
  • Type of control - RK + Exam (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to form the ability to effectively carry out communication, team building, conflict and stress management, formation, development and improvement of leadership qualities. The following topics will be studied: leadership theories and their content, characteristics of a manager and an effective leader, social changes in leadership positions in an enterprise, leadership style as a leadership strategy, and the formation of an image of a leader.

Organizational behavior and leadership
  • Number of credits - 5
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to form the ability to effectively carry out communication, team building, conflict and stress management, formation, development and improvement of leadership qualities. The following topics will be studied: leadership theories and their content, characteristics of a manager and an effective leader, social changes in leadership positions in an enterprise, leadership style as a leadership strategy, and the formation of an image of a leader.

Personnel management
  • Number of credits - 5
  • Type of control - RK + Exam (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to form the ability to manage human resources, plan and staff a healthcare organization. The following topics will be studied: human resource management, planning and staffing, increasing labor productivity, features of using the CRI system, rational use of available labor resources; improving the professional competence of employees; methods of motivation.

Personnel management
  • Number of credits - 5
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to form the ability to manage human resources, plan and staff a healthcare organization. The following topics will be studied: human resource management, planning and staffing, increasing labor productivity, features of using the CRI system, rational use of available labor resources; improving the professional competence of employees; methods of motivation.

Strategic management
  • Number of credits - 3
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The goal of the discipline is to form the ability to develop and implement an organization's strategy. The discipline considers the issues of strategic choice, strategic analysis of the company, considers the formation of strategies of various levels for companies of single business and diversified companies, presents matrix methods

Strategic Management
  • Number of credits - 3
  • Type of control - RK + Exam (100)
  • Description - The goal of the discipline is to form the ability to develop and implement an organization's strategy. The discipline considers the issues of strategic choice, strategic analysis of the company, considers the formation of strategies of various levels for companies of single business and diversified companies, presents matrix methods.

Writing and Preparation of masters Dissertation
  • Number of credits - 12
  • Type of control - Master Dissertation
  • Description - The main purpose of "The implementation of a Master Thesis": the formation of master students in preparation for the defense of the thesis for the Master in specialty (by industry). During the study of course, master student's should be competent in: 1. demonstrate the progress of solving problems arising in the course of research activities and requiring in-depth professional knowledge; 2. to argue for carrying out theoretical or experimental research within the framework of the tasks, including a mathematical (simulation) experiment; 3. can choose the necessary research methods, modify existing methods and develop new methods, based on the tasks of the specific study; 4. to use foreign languages for independent work on normative sources and scientific literature; 5. formulate the goals and objectives of the dissertation research, determine the scientific novelty and practical significance of the results of research activities; to develop a structurally methodological scheme for performing research.

Data for 2021-2024 years

disciplines

Business planning and innovation management
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The goal of the course is to develop the ability to manage management, aimed at the effective use of material, technical, labor, and financial resources to solve complex, non-standard problems within the framework of innovative changes. The following will be studied: innovations, their role and place in the economy; concepts of technological development and innovative growth of the company; strategy and objectives of innovative development; globalization and innovation.

Digital technologies and management tools
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The goal of the discipline is the formation of the ability to use digital technologies in the management of the company. Will be studied: digital transformation of business, the emergence of new models and scenarios, management of organizations and business processes, transformation of business models, digital technologies in personnel management of companies, marketing, logistics. The course examines global trends in the digital transformation of management and features of the evolution of business in Kazakhstan.

Digital technologies in healthcare
  • Type of control - RK + Exam (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to form the ability to use knowledge and skills in the field of modern information technologies in professional activities. The following will be studied: information and information processes in the healthcare system; the role and place of automated information systems in healthcare; informatization and interoperability platform, telemedicine, medical images and PACS, MHEALTH; Information Security.

Digital technologies in healthcare
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to form the ability to use knowledge and skills in the field of modern information technologies in professional activities. The following will be studied: information and information processes in the healthcare system; the role and place of automated information systems in healthcare; informatization and interoperability platform, telemedicine, medical images and PACS, MHEALTH; Information Security.

E-Marketing
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline to form the students' ability to develop and use the basic tools of Internet marketing. Will be studied: basic tools and strategies for implementing Internet marketing; international and national legal documents in the field of Internet marketing regulation.

Field module
  • Type of control - Защита практики
  • Description - This course is aimed at studying foreign experience in management, acquiring practical knowledge and skills in implementing this process by taking survey courses from leading teachers and practitioners, as well as visiting leading organizations in the field of tourism abroad.

Financial accounting for managers
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to form the ability to use financial statements and other information contained in the financial accounting system of organizations for making managerial decisions. The following will be studied: the technique of forming accounting information about the facts of economic activity (accounting accounts, registration logs and accounting registers); the content and purposes of compiling various types of business documentation.

Financial reporting and management control in health care
  • Type of control - RK + Exam (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to form the ability to apply modern methods of financial reporting and management control. The following will be studied: financial statements, its composition; the concept of accounting and reporting development in the Republic of Kazakhstan; reporting techniques; measures preceding the preparation of reporting forms; inventory before the preparation of accounting statements; reformation of the balance sheet.

Financial reporting and management control in health care
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to form the ability to apply modern methods of financial reporting and management control. The following will be studied: financial statements, its composition; the concept of accounting and reporting development in the Republic of Kazakhstan; reporting techniques; measures preceding the preparation of reporting forms; inventory before the preparation of accounting statements; reformation of the balance sheet.

Health care project planning and management
  • Type of control - RK + Exam (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline: to develop the ability to plan and manage projects in healthcare and apply procedures for collecting and processing information about the progress of work on the project. The following will be studied: process groups and areas of knowledge of project management; the life cycle of an investment project, project classification; stages of development of the Project Charter; management of cost, risks, quality and resources of the project.

Health care project planning and management
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline: to develop the ability to plan and manage projects in healthcare and apply procedures for collecting and processing information about the progress of work on the project. The following will be studied: process groups and areas of knowledge of project management; the life cycle of an investment project, project classification; stages of development of the Project Charter; management of cost, risks, quality and resources of the project.

Information systems and technologies in health care
  • Type of control - RK + Exam (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to form the ability to use modern information technologies in healthcare. The following will be studied: modern means of informatization, methods of informatization of medical activity, informatization of management in the healthcare system, including applied computer programs for solving healthcare problems such as: relational databases, MS Access, SPSS, SPSS main windows, data organization in SPSS.

Information systems and technologies in health care
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to form the ability to use modern information technologies in healthcare. The following will be studied: modern means of informatization, methods of informatization of medical activity, informatization of management in the healthcare system, including applied computer programs for solving healthcare problems such as: relational databases, MS Access, SPSS, SPSS main windows, data organization in SPSS.

Legal responsibility and ethics in medicine
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to develop the ability to diagnose and analyze ethical and legal problems and processes in a healthcare organization in order to make rational decisions. The following topics will be studied: legal and social responsibility in business; ethical codes; social responsibility and profit of the company; ethical principles of negotiation; models of relations between managers and employees; ethical standards of conduct of the head.

Logistics and supplycha in management in health care
  • Type of control - RK + Exam (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to form the ability to organize supply chains and assess the effectiveness of their management based on the formation of a unified information support. The following topics will be studied: supply chain management, the evolution of the concept of supply chain management, systematization of flow processes in the chain, logistics links in the supply chain, problems of coordination and communication, the synergistic effect of logistics integration in the supply chain.

Logistics and supplycha in management in health care
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to form the ability to organize supply chains and assess the effectiveness of their management based on the formation of a unified information support. The following topics will be studied: supply chain management, the evolution of the concept of supply chain management, systematization of flow processes in the chain, logistics links in the supply chain, problems of coordination and communication, the synergistic effect of logistics integration in the supply chain.

Logistics in health care
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to form the ability to manage logistical processes in a healthcare organization through the study and use of ways to minimize logistical costs and resources. The following will be studied: the principles of building information systems for logistics management; the organization of procurement logistics; production warehousing systems; determination and optimization of logistics costs; transport logistics.

Macro and microeconomics
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to form the ability to analyze and interpret data from domestic and foreign statistics on socio-economic processes. The following topics will be studied: consumer behavior; substitution effect and income effect; theory of revealed preferences; market interaction in conditions of imperfect competition; microeconomics of foreign trade; Keynesian and Neoclassical investment models; accelerator model of the investment process; Tobin's q-theory.

Management Economics
  • Type of control - RK + Exam (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to form the ability to reveal the essence of economic processes, analyze the factors that determine the success of a healthcare organization in the market. Will be studied:
models of behavior of economic agents; methods of analysis and forecasting of demand for enterprise products; methods of analysis and forecasting of production costs; methods of planning the production program of the enterprise.

Management Economics
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to form the ability to reveal the essence of economic processes, analyze the factors that determine the success of a healthcare organization in the market. Will be studied:
models of behavior of economic agents; methods of analysis and forecasting of demand for enterprise products; methods of analysis and forecasting of production costs; methods of planning the production program of the enterprise.

Management of production processes in health care
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to form the ability to develop and implement the overall strategy and operational directions of a healthcare organization through analysis, production process capacities and standards and norms for the provision of medical services. The following topics will be studied: the structure of the labor process in various departments of the organization, methods for studying the cost of working time and labor rationing, the philosophy of kaizen and lean technologies.

Marketing in Health care
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to form the ability to develop a strategic marketing plan for a healthcare organization. The following topics will be studied: the essence of marketing and its environment; market research of medical goods and services; forecasting methods in marketing; analysis of the external and internal environment of a medical organization; development of a marketing strategy of a medical organization; study of supply and demand for medical services.

Marketing strategy
  • Type of control - RK + Exam (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to form the ability to develop a strategic marketing plan and a program for the development of a healthcare organization at the micro and macro levels. The following topics will be studied: development of a strategic marketing plan; systematization and analysis of statistical and marketing information; strategic decisions on product policy; strategic decisions on pricing; strategic decisions on communication.

Marketing strategy
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to form the ability to develop a strategic marketing plan and a program for the development of a healthcare organization at the micro and macro levels. The following topics will be studied: development of a strategic marketing plan; systematization and analysis of statistical and marketing information; strategic decisions on product policy; strategic decisions on pricing; strategic decisions on communication.

Medical law and ethics
  • Type of control - RK + Exam (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to form the ability to navigate the system of legislation and regulatory legal acts regulating the sphere of professional activity. Theoretical and practical issues related to medical law and ethics in medicine based on the use of modern teaching methods, identification of priority areas in modern legislation and decision-making with respect for human dignity and human rights will be studied.

Medical law and ethics
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to form the ability to navigate the system of legislation and regulatory legal acts regulating the sphere of professional activity. Theoretical and practical issues related to medical law and ethics in medicine based on the use of modern teaching methods, identification of priority areas in modern legislation and decision-making with respect for human dignity and human rights will be studied.

Models of health system development: world experience
  • Type of control - RK + Exam (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the course is to develop the ability to conduct a comparative analysis of the development of healthcare systems in the world. The following will be studied: existing models of healthcare organization in the countries of the world; insurance and private enterprise healthcare systems; fundamentals of the healthcare management system in foreign countries; experience of foreign countries in training middle and senior medical personnel.

Models of health system development: world experience
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the course is to develop the ability to conduct a comparative analysis of the development of healthcare systems in the world. The following will be studied: existing models of healthcare organization in the countries of the world; insurance and private enterprise healthcare systems; fundamentals of the healthcare management system in foreign countries; experience of foreign countries in training middle and senior medical personnel.

Operations management in Health care
  • Type of control - RK + Exam (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to form the ability to apply methods for the construction and management of production flows, operational processes of the organization. The discipline examines the issues of the integrated concept of production and operations management; methods of design and restructuring and basic business processes; product design and development; elements of the Kaizen philosophy of "TPS", "JIT", "Lean Production"; inventory and sales management.

Operations management in Health care
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to form the ability to apply methods for the construction and management of production flows, operational processes of the organization. The discipline examines the issues of the integrated concept of production and operations management; methods of design and restructuring and basic business processes; product design and development; elements of the Kaizen philosophy of "TPS", "JIT", "Lean Production"; inventory and sales management.

Quality management in health care
  • Type of control - RK + Exam (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to form the ability to apply quality management methods in the organization of healthcare and competitiveness in the medical services market. The following topics will be studied: the essence and concept of quality management, the fundamental principles of quality management, the main provisions of the TQM concept, quality planning, international ISO 9000 series standards within the framework of QMS, methods of quality assessment and measurement, kaizen philosophy and lean technologies.

Quality management in health care
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to form the ability to apply quality management methods in the organization of healthcare and competitiveness in the medical services market. The following topics will be studied: the essence and concept of quality management, the fundamental principles of quality management, the main provisions of the TQM concept, quality planning, international ISO 9000 series standards within the framework of QMS, methods of quality assessment and measurement, kaizen philosophy and lean technologies.

Quality management in the health care system
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to form the ability to use modern principles of quality management of medical services in management activities. The following will be studied: modern concepts and models for assessing the quality of medical care, standards for the organization of medical care, accreditation standards for medical organizations, basic scales and indicators for the examination of the quality of medical care.

World health system policies and procedures
  • Type of control - RK + Exam (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to develop the ability to analyze and evaluate research in the field of healthcare by studying the main strategic and methodological documents of healthcare. The following will be studied: global health research, infectious diseases, non-communicable diseases, maternal diseases, perinatal diseases, nutritional disorders, non-communicable diseases, injuries.

World health system policies and procedures
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to develop the ability to analyze and evaluate research in the field of healthcare by studying the main strategic and methodological documents of healthcare. The following will be studied: global health research, infectious diseases, non-communicable diseases, maternal diseases, perinatal diseases, nutritional disorders, non-communicable diseases, injuries.

Data for 2021-2024 years

INTERNSHIPS

Production
  • Type of control - Защита практики
  • Description - The purpose of the practice is to form the ability to read flow charts of chemical production, to justify the choice of equipment, materials and design and design solutions on the example of a specific chemical enterprise, to implement the competencies obtained during the development of the module to perform production tasks during the practice. The practice is aimed at mastering the structure, regulations, equipment and materials of specific chemical industries.

Data for 2021-2024 years