Management of Healthcare Institutions

Course of study from 2022

Elective courses:

You must choose 5 credits in elective courses in the 2nd semester and 15 credits in the 3rd semester from this list:

Course of study from 2019 - 2021

HMET4210 ¨C Research Design ** HMET4210 ¨C Research Design *begins teaching at the end of 2nd semester, exam and credits is assigned to 3rd semester.

Methods course:

You must choose one of these methods courses:

• HMET5120 ¨C Qualitative methods
• HMET5130 ¨C Linear Regression Analyses (discontinued) 

Elective courses:

You must choose 5 credits in elective courses in the 2nd semester and 15 credits in the 3rd semester from this list:

• HECON4210 ¨C Demand for Health and Health Insurance
• HECON4250 ¨C Cost and Efficiency Analyses of Health Care Providers
• HECON4220 ¨C Paying Providers of Health Care
• HECON4260 ¨C Need analyses, risk adjustments and formula funding (discontinued)
• HEVAL4200 ¨C Fundamentals of economic evaluation in health care
• HEVAL5120 ¨C Modeling in economic evaluation I
• HEVAL5130 ¨C Modeling in economic evaluation II
• HEVAL5140 ¨C Methods for effectiveness evaluations in health care (discontinued)
• HMAN4230 ¨C Internship
• HMET5120 ¨C Qualitative methods
• HMET5130 ¨C Linear Regression Analyses (discontinued)
• HMET5140 ¨C Non-Parametric Methods and regression alternatives

Course of study - 2017-2018

* begins teaching at the end of 2nd semester, exam and credits is assigned to 3rd semester.

Class of 2018 have two obligatory courses with 10 credits each in the 2nd semester:

• HFIN4210 ¨C Finance and Investment
• HMAN4210 ¨C Leadership, Management and Organization Development

Class of 2017 have four obligatory courses with 5 credits each in the 2nd semester:

• HFIN4210 - Finance (old version - 5 credits)
• HFIN4220 ¨C Investments (discontinued)
• HMAN4210 - Leadership and Management (old version - 5 credits)
• HMAN4220 ¨C Health organization development and design (discontinued)

Methods course:

You must choose one of these methods courses:

• HMET5120 ¨C Qualitative methods
• HMET5130 ¨C Linear Regression Analyses (discontinued) 

Complementary courses:

You must choose between 10 credits in complementary courses in the 3rd semester:

• HECON4260 ¨C Need analyses, risk adjustments and formula funding (discontinued)
• HFIN4230 ¨C Cost accounting (discontinued)
• HMAN4230 ¨C Internship
• HMAN5140 ¨C Topics in Priority Setting (discontinued)
• HMAN5150 ¨C Management in practice (HR-management) (discontinued)
• HMAN5160 ¨C Integrated Care Models

Complementary courses may be used as elective courses if not already chosen.

Elective courses:

You must choose 5 credits in elective courses in the 2nd semester and 15 credits in the 3rd semester (depending on credits taken as complementary courses):

• HEVAL5140 ¨C Methods for effectiveness evaluations in health care (discontinued)
• HEVAL5200 ¨C Topics in economic evaluation
• HFIN4240 ¨C Budgeting (discontinued)
• HGOV5200 ¨C Topics in Health Policy (discontinued)
• HMET5120 ¨C Qualitative methods
• HMET5130 ¨C Linear Regression Analyses (discontinued)
• HMET5140 ¨C Non-Parametric Methods and regression alternatives

Course of study - 2013-2016

* begins teaching at the end of 2nd semester, exam and credits is assigned to 3rd semester.

** if you have already taken HMED1101 ¨C Helsefaglig grunnkunnskap og nomenklatur, you may replace the course with:

• HEVAL5110 ¨C Valuing Health (discontinued)
• HEVAL5150 ¨C Decision making under risk and uncertainty (discontinued)
• HMAN5140 ¨C Topics in Priority Setting (discontinued)
• HMAN5160 ¨C Integrated Care Models

Specialisation

In order to specialise you must take 40 credits within the selected specialisation. You must also write your thesis within the field that you choose (30 credits). The obligatory courses in the specialisation Health Management are:

• HMAN4210 - Leadership and Management (old version - 5 credits)
• HMAN4220 ¨C Health organization development and design (discontinued)
• HFIN4220 ¨C Investments (discontinued)
• HFIN4230 ¨C Cost accounting (discontinued)
• HMET4210 ¨C Research Design

You must also choose 10 credits from this complementary course list:

• HFIN4210 - Finance (old version - 5 credits)
• HFIN4240 ¨C Budgeting (discontinued)
• HMAN5140 ¨C Topics in Priority Setting (discontinued)
• HMAN5160 ¨C Integrated Care Models
• HMAN5150 ¨C Management in practice (HR-management) (discontinued)

and one of these methods courses:

• HMET5120 ¨C Qualitative methods
• HMET5130 ¨C Linear Regression Analyses (discontinued) 

Elective courses

The remainder of credits must be chosen from the courses available from the Institute of Health and Society's portfolio. To choose courses, use the list of courses available at master's level.

You may apply to get other relevant courses approved as elective courses. The application should include a course description or supplementary information. Applications are submitted to: postmottak@medisin.uio.no. If the Institute of Health and Society approve of the course, you may apply for the course through Studentweb. If the course is not available in Studentweb, you must contact the department which offers the course.