Management

Master Health CareManagementKees van Wijk, PhD, programme coordinatorIn many ways, the years 2009 and 2010 have been very exciting forthe master programme in Health Care Management. The number ofstudents has increased substantially, the curriculum was enrichedwith an extra course and various improvement projects havestarted.The substantial growth of student numbers continued through theyears 2009 and 2010. Of course we are delighted with this increase instudent numbers, but this has also led to increased pressure on theteaching methods of the master programme. Therefore, we chose torenew the curriculum at some points.The course Communication management (in Dutch) has been replacedby the new English course Health Service Supply Management. Thiscourse is provided in cooperation with the Rotterdam School ofManagement (RSM). To further improve the quality of the theses, weprolonged the thesis writing process by one month. A specialgraduation programme was set up for excellent students. Undersupervision of several professors, a select group of students works upto a publication of a scientific article in an English-language peerreview journal. Each year five students are selected for thisprogramme.Seven master students in Health Care Management participated in anexchange programme with the university of Oslo or Milano (Bocconi).Twenty-five students from both master programmes of iBMG took partin the yearly study trip to London. During this trip, these students gota good impression of the English health care system in comparison toour Dutch health care system.Furthermore, we have had some fine successes during the reportperiod. In both 2009 and 2010, the thesis award of the DutchAssociation of Managers in the Health Care (in Dutch: NVZD -Nederlandse Vereniging van Bestuurders in de Gezondheidszorg) waspresented to a student of our master programme in Health Care38