Profile: Department of Health Care
The Department of Health Care develops continuing education programmes that open up new career prospects for working students with backgrounds in health, medicine and the sciences. The department’s first programmes, the master’s degree course in Drug Research and Management and the certificate programme in Clinical Research and Regulatory Affairs, qualify graduates to take on responsible interdisciplinary assignments in the pharmaceutical industry, government agencies and other health care institutions.
Other professional development programmes for the medical field are currently in development. These courses will focus on geriatric medicine, early rehabilitation, nutrition and medical humanities.
The department’s cooperative projects with clinical institutions give students opportunities to study special topics in depth and to broaden their professional qualifications.
Master’s degree courses
Certificate programmes
Research
The Department of Health Care is concerned with developing a suitable skills model to allow interprofessional cooperation among experts in the field. This is a prerequisite for successful professional activity especially in the medical and health care sector, and entails elucidating interdependencies in the medical and scientific disciplines as well as expanding the knowledge profile of specialists in the field of health care and medicine with regard to the economic, legal and organizational aspects of their professional activities.
The department develops learning arrangements for postgraduate continuing education in the medicine and health care fields. Such arrangements include organizational models that combine different learning locations as well as modern learning architectures for working students’ continuing education.
A particular area of focus in health care is ageing. This focus area gives rise to many forms of transdisciplinary cooperation with the departments of Business and Management, Education and Communication. In conjunction with the other departments, the Department of Health Care develops research-based professional development programmes devoted to the medical, socio-economic, demographic and organizational issues of the ageing society.