Department of Health Care Management

Education

The Department of „Health Care Management”, originally entitled „Health Care”, was established by decision of the Academic council on 18.02.2003. There are three sections in the department:

• Health Care Management
• Medical Ethics and Law
• Pedagogy and Psychology

The following can apply for a master’s degree in USG: graduates with a bachelor’s degree in health care; the professional bachelors who, after graduating from medical colleges, acquired one of the specialties “Social Activities”, “Social Pedagogy”, “Social Management” or “Health Management” /with a duration of study of three semesters and an internship/; bachelor’s degree in health care management /with a duration of study of two semesters and an internship/.
The habilitated teachers and assistants from the department take an active part in the educational process of the “Health Management” specialty. The educational capacity exceeds 600 students per academic year, with the number of hours several times exceeding that required for theoretical departments. The new generation of healthcare managers and healthcare executives are emerging as effective modern-day leaders for the various, incl. highest levels of management of health activities. The department is also active in international exchange. In 2007, public health students from higher medical schools of central Europe were enrolled in individual English-language training as part of a pre-graduate internship.
In 2009, members of the academic staff, in the person of the main assistants Marieta Todorova and Vanina Mihailova, participated in a teaching exchange under the Lifelong learning Program Higher Education Erasmus in Poland, humanitarian college, city of Wroclaw, with a lecture course in the field of professional distress, rehabilitation management and methodology of organizing and conducting practical classes. In 2018, members of the academic staff of the department participated in exchanges under the Erasmus+ program and in other teaching exchange programs for both teaching and learning purposes. A teaching exchange was held at Miguel Hernández University in the city of Elche, Alicante, Spain with a lecture course on psychological constraints in decision-making and intergenerational differences in an organizational context. Exchange for the purpose of teaching was also carried out in universities in Turkey and Poland, and exchange for the purpose of training – in Greece.”

Disciplines taught in the “Healthcare Management” department:

1. Health Care Management:
• Part I Essence, Content, Methodology and Technology of Health Care Management”;
• II part /Management of human resources/;
• Part III / Quality assurance and management in health care; Healthcare Marketing
2. Labor law;
3. Administrative Law;
4. Fundamentals of law and health legislation;
5. Criminal and civil law;
6. Health legislation and medical law;
7. Social medicine;
8. Health promotion;
9. Medical ethics and deontology;
10. Pedagogy;
11. Medical pedagogy;
12. Methodology of practical training in specialties from the prof. direction “Health care” Psychology;
13. Psychology;
14. Applied Psychology;
15. Psychology of management;
16. Organization and ergonomics of work in the healthcare facility;
17. History of health and health care;
18. History of Health Care Management;
19. Health projects;
20. Andragogy (Pedagogy of continuing education of personnel in the healthcare organization);
21. Management and business ethics;
22. Time management;
23. Health Promotion Strategies (Nutrition Promotion Strategies and Interventions);
24. Preventive medicine and health promotion
25. Health project and time management