Part A: Course Overview

Course Title: Business and Entrepreneurship in Health

Credit Points: 12.00


Course Coordinator: Doa El-Ansary

Course Coordinator Phone: +61 3 9925

Course Coordinator Email: doa.el-ansary@rmit.edu.au


Pre-requisite Courses and Assumed Knowledge and Capabilities

None


Course Description

This course provides you with the opportunity to build and develop management, business and leadership skills that are essential for effective physiotherapy practice. You will engage with interdisciplinary frameworks to appraise issues in the health sector and apply business and design thinking to explore and forge solutions to everyday problems. The principles of managing and leading teams to achieve outcomes in diverse health settings will be a focus within this course. You will also be challenged to develop an entrepreneurial mindset that incorporates creativity, innovation and critical thinking for work readiness in an ever-evolving world.  


Objectives/Learning Outcomes/Capability Development

Program Learning Outcomes

This course is an option course so it is not required to contribute to the development of program learning outcomes (PLOs) though it may assist your achievement of several PLOs.

For more information on the program learning outcomes for your program, please see the program guide.


Course Learning Outcomes (CLOs) 

Upon successful completion of this course, you will be able to:  

  1. Identify business and design thinking principles and skills that can be used to innovate solutions or improve services within the health sector.
  2. Discuss strategies and systems, including those involving digital health and technology, for the effective management of both patients and teams within the healthcare context.
  3. Apply leadership and management principles to real-world scenarios within the healthcare context, focusing on responsible practice and ethical considerations in these roles.
  4. Reflect on the application of personal cultural identity and the values of respect, inclusion, and responsible practice within the health context, emphasising their significance and implications. 


Overview of Learning Activities

RMIT University is committed to providing you with an education that strongly links formal learning with professional or vocational practice. As a student enrolled in this program you will:  

  • Undertake and be assessed on structured activities that allow you to learn, apply and demonstrate your professional or vocational practice.
  • Interact with industry and community when undertaking these activities
  • Complete these activities in real work contexts or situations 

You will be actively engaged in a range of online and face-to-face learning activities such as lectorials, tutorials, practicals, simulated clinical laboratories, seminars, project work, class discussion, individual and group activities.  

You  are encouraged to be proactive and self-directed in your learning, asking questions of your lecturer and/or peers and seeking out information as required, especially from the numerous sources available through the RMIT library, and through links and material specific to this course that is available through myRMIT Studies Course. 


Overview of Learning Resources

Each learning module contains core resources such as journal articles, videos, podcasts and other readings that you will require to complete the course successfully. Learning resources within this course will be clearly marked as ‘essential’ or ‘supplementary’. If the teaching team finds additional resources during course delivery that could be of interest for the cohort, this will be made available during the teaching period. 

RMIT will provide you with resources and tools for learning in this course through RMIT My Course. 

There are services available to support your learning through the University Library. The Library provides guides on academic referencing and subject specialist help as well as a range of study support services. For further information, please visit the Library page on the RMIT University website and the RMIT My Course. 


Overview of Assessment

Assessment tasks  

Assessment Task 1: Individual Assignment
Weighting: 30% 
This assessment item supports CLOs 1 and 2  

Assessment Task 2: Group Pitch 
Weighting: 20% 
This assessment task supports CLOs 3 and 4 

Assessment Task 3: Group Assignment
Weighting 50%
This assessment task supports CLOs 2, 3 and 4 

If you have a long term medical condition and/or disability it may be possible to negotiate to vary aspects of the learning or assessment methods. You can contact the program coordinator or Equitable Learning Services if you would like to find out more.