OVERVIEW

Innovation in Healthcare is organized by Royal College Of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI).

About:
The Innovation in Healthcare micro-credential from RCSI Graduate School of Healthcare Management is designed to equip healthcare professionals with the essential tools to drive innovation in the complex and rapidly evolving healthcare landscape. Over five weeks, participants will engage with fully online, self-paced interactive material, culminating in weekly live sessions to consolidate learning and facilitate discussion.

Each module is carefully crafted to help you explore your potential as an innovator. You'll learn to identify and define healthcare innovation opportunities, transform ideas into practical solutions, and successfully implement these innovations within healthcare settings. The course also provides valuable insights into navigating healthcare regulations and compliance, helping you bring innovative solutions to life while staying within the regulatory framework.

With a strong emphasis on networking and collaboration, you’ll connect with industry experts, mentors, and peers, gaining a supportive community to help propel your innovation journey.

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

Course Modules:
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 1: During the first week, participants will be introduced to the realm of innovation within healthcare and science.
Week 2: Moving on to the second week, participants will explore the theoretical foundations that connect creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship in healthcare, emphasising their significance and impact.
Week 3: In the third week, we'll take a more in-depth look at innovation development, covering various types, opportunities, and the innovation process.
Week 4: As we reach the fourth week, participants will engage in a critical analysis of innovation through the lens of scientific and technological advancements, evaluating its societal value and relevance to stakeholders.
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.