OVERVIEW

Design Thinking for Healthcare is organized by Royal College Of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI).

About:
Enhance your ability to develop and implement strategic business plans in the healthcare and related fields with the Micro-credential in Business Planning for Healthcare Innovation* from RCSI Graduate School of Healthcare Management.

With a practical focus readying you for immediate impact in healthcare you'll delve into business planning principles, hone your critical thinking and develop the practical skills you need to innovatively address healthcare challenges.

Emerge as an organizational influencer, leading positive changes through strategic planning.

This five-week micro-credential course is delivered entirely online with learning content delivered through pre-recorded videos and online activities. At the end of each week there will be a 90-minute live webinar. All webinars are recorded for those who cannot attend live, and will be available to view at your convenience.

The development of this micro-credential was funded by the Higher Education Authority Ireland to deliver initiatives around entrepreneurship education.

Course Modules:
A four-week online learning experience awaits you. Each week is carefully designed to offer a dynamic blend of both direct and indirect synchronous and interactive activities. These include live lectures, exercises, discussions, reading assignments, self-study sessions, formative learning assessments, and summative preparation tasks. This approach fosters an immersive and student-centred learning environment, facilitating the attainment of your learning objectives. Week 5 will be dedicated to the assessment phase, where you'll receive detailed feedback.

Week 1: In the introductory week, we will delve into the fundamentals of design thinking, uncovering its meaning and core elements, such as problem understanding, empathy, ideation, prototyping, testing, and implementation.
Week 2: Participants will focus on the theoretical aspects, emphasising the role of design thinking in crafting creative solutions for healthcare challenges and the myriad benefits it brings to the healthcare and science domains.
Week 3: As we move into week three, a deeper dive awaits, highlighting the importance of a patient-centred approach, infusing empathy and compassion into the design process.
Week 4: Finally, in week four, we will critically assess design thinking and innovation within team dynamics, emphasising effective collaboration as a crucial component of applying design thinking in healthcare and related sectors.
Week 5: Lastly, in the fifth week, the course will conclude with an assessment and an ongoing feedback process aimed at evaluating the holistic learning outcomes achieved throughout the programme.

Learning Outcomes:

Develop capacity to understand key concepts in business planning and development as applied to or enacted in health and related sectors.
Develop critical understanding of how business planning tools, theory and practice can be employed to alter working lives and human health.
Understand and apply business frameworks appropriately to the issues or challenges that arise in delivering or changing health and related sectors.
Develop competence in evaluating concepts pertaining to business viability with a view to assessing and identifying what works (and what does not) in particular scenarios and why.
Demonstrate the ability to challenge assumptions and question processes in the development of an effective business canvas/plan in a contextually sensitive manner.
Enact critical understanding and skills necessary to perform as an effective organizational actor with the confidence and ability to work with and lead others in pursuit of better health and wellbeing through application of business planning and development.
Develop critical reflection and reflexivity so as to understand how their specific approach to organizing and managing impacts on the people, processes or structures through business planning and development.
Reflect on how to change practice as an actor/manager/leader in organizational contexts in support of the betterment of human health and well-being, and in support of principles linked to relevant components of the UN Sustainable Development Goals.