Value Based Health Care - the future for the health care sector?
Course content
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 history and background of VBHC
- Practicing VBHC, examples from the real world
- New business models for industry
- The World Economic Forum Framework for VBHC
- Impact on patients, what are patient relevant outcomes and how are they different today?
Master of Industrial Drug
Development (MIND) - elective
The course is preapproved as an elective in the
Master Medicines Regulatory
Affairs (MRA) programme and open for single course
students who meet the admission criteria.
Upon completion of the course participants will have gained the following knowledge, skills and competencies:
Knowledge
- Understand key steps in 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 discuss potential solutions
- Discuss rationales for and consequences of VBHC plans and initiatives
- Design and develop 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
- Collaborate within a multi-disciplinary VBHC development project team
This is an intensive 5-day course. Teaching methods consist of a combination of lectures, group discussions, case studies, presentations, simulation exercises and panel discussions.
Applicants must meet the following criteria:
• A relevant bachelor degree or equivalent
• A minimum of 2 years of relevant job experience
• Proficiency in English
- ECTS
- 3 ECTS
- Type of assessment
-
Written assignment
- Type of assessment details
- A 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.
- 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 assessment
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
Part time Master and Diploma courses
- Category
- Hours
- Class Instruction
- 40
- Preparation
- 22,5
- Exam
- 20
- English
- 82,5
Kursusinformation
- Language
- English
- Course number
- SMIMIF116U
- ECTS
- 3 ECTS
- Programme level
- Part Time Master
- Duration
-
5 days
- Placement
- Summer
- Price
-
See course fee details at programme webpage
- Schedulegroup
-
August 2023
- Capacity
- 25 persons maximum
- Studyboard
- 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 (15-6e65726d72693278766579707769724477797268326f7932686f)
- Marlene Gyldmark (16-6f63746e67706730697b6e666f63746d4275777066306d7730666d)
Teacher
Marlene Gyldmark;Stefan Larsson, Boston Consulting Group; Kenneth Forsstroem Jensen, Roche, Denmark; additional teachers - to be announced
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