Module GW4710-KP15

Duration

2 Semester

Turnus of offer

each summer semester

Credit points

15

Course of studies, specific fields and terms:

• Master in Health and Healthcare Science 2019, optional subject, Healthcare Development and Management
• Master in Health and Healthcare Science 2025, optional subject, Healthcare Development and Management

Classes and lectures:

• Research and Project Management (lecture, 1 SWS)
• Jour Fixe Evidence-Based Healthcare Development (seminar, 1 SWS)
• Applied Evidence-Based Healthcare Development (project work, 3 SWS)

Workload:

• 375 hours private studies and exercises
• 75 hours in-classroom work

Contents of teaching:

• Basics of research and project management: phases of a project, definition of project goals, creation of work breakdown structures with work packages, definition of milestones, time planning and management, self-organization, management and project coordination in work groups, dealing with difficulties as well as error and crisis management in projects.
• Planning and implementation of your own project on the evidence-based further development of health care at the organizational (meso) or system (macro) level (also possible as a sub-project within the framework of an already existing extensive project)
• Methods to actively engage representatives of vulnerable or disadvantaged target groups in practice.
• Presentation and discussion of the respective work status of the project in the group
• Leading and guiding project teams
• Reflection on experiences, own roles and own learning growth within the project.

Qualification-goals/Competencies:

• Knowledge and understanding: Students will be able to describe and compare models and methods of research and project management and analyze and evaluate them in terms of their suitability for specific research or development projects in the healthcare sector.
• Knowledge and Understanding: Students will be able to describe and compare models for implementing evidence-based change in health care practice and analyze and evaluate them for their appropriateness to a specific change project.
• Use, application and generation of knowledge: To the greatest extent possible, students can independently identify needs for evidence-based advancement of health care practice based on given conditions in health care (micro-, meso-, or macro-level) and formulate a corresponding workable project goal.
• Use, application and generation of knowledge: Students can plan a project for the further development of health care to the greatest possible extent independently for this project objective and justify their planning decisions in a theoretically and empirically plausible manner with regard to the groups of people, milestones and methods to be included.
• Use, application and generation of knowledge: Students are able to coordinate and control the implementation of the planned project under expert supervision. In doing so, they are able to critically reflect on interim results or deviations from the initial conditions or from the project plan that occur, to systematically research any further information that may be required and to adjust the project plan in a justified manner if necessary and in consultation with all those involved.
• Communication and cooperation: Students are able to independently describe the goals and methodological approach of a practice development project in writing and orally in a manner appropriate to the target group and to represent them to others.
• Communication and cooperation: The students are able to form and lead project teams/working groups independently as far as possible, in which all necessary target groups or groups of people to be included are sufficiently represented. In particular, they are sensitized to and able to stimulate and support the active participation of representatives of vulnerable groups (e.g. patients) or groups that are insufficiently considered in practice.
• Communication and cooperation: Students are able to give appropriate, respectful feedback to team members about work steps and results and to receive feedback on their own decisions or actions appropriately and to use it for their own learning processes.
• Scientific self-concept and professionalism: Students are able to analyze the course and results of the project as far as possible independently against the background of the framework conditions of health care and their own scope for decision-making and to identify necessary further development needs, both at the organizational or system level and with regard to their own professional roles and tasks.
• Students collaborate with diverse health professions based on mutual respect and shared values.
• Students know that many areas of health care can only succeed effectively through interprofessional collaboration.
• Students will be able to communicate with other health care professionals using appropriate professional language.
• Students will be able to integrate the perspectives and expertise of the professional groups involved in the provision of care into interprofessional collaboration and see themselves as part of a whole.
• Students develop scientific research with other health professionals.
• Students will be able to explain the principles of interprofessional collaboration and apply them to specific examples.

Grading through:

• project work

Responsible for this module:

• Prof. Dr. phil. Anne Rahn

Teacher:

• Institute of Health Sciences
• Institute for Social Medicine and Epidemiology
• Prof. Dr. Katrin Balzer
• Prof. Dr. phil. Anne Rahn
• Prof. Dr. med. Alexander Katalinic
• Prof. Dr. Kerstin Lüdtke
• Prof. Annette Baumgärtner, PhD

Literature:

• Harris JL, Roussel L, Dearman C, Thomas PL. : Project Planning and Management. A Guide for Nurses and Interprofessional Teams. 2nd ed. Jones & Bartlett Learning: Burlington MA, 2016
• Hoben M, Bär M, Wahl H-W. : Implementierungswissenschaft für Pflege und Gerontologie. Grundlagen, Forschung und Anwendung – ein Handbuch. Kohlhammer: Stuttgart, 2016.

Language:

• German and English skills required

Notes:

Last Updated:

16.09.2025