A doctor stepping into a hospital management role, or a health-institute graduate aiming for one, quickly discovers that clinical training alone doesn't prepare them for running a department, supervising staff, or aligning a hospital with its surrounding environment. This Arab British Fellowship Training Academy course is designed to close exactly that gap, building the administrative capacity health managers need from day one.

Participants work through the organisational hierarchy of a hospital, the functional structure that holds it together, and where supervisory and middle-management responsibilities actually sit within it. The course also looks at what genuinely sets health service management apart from management elsewhere, the strategies that work specifically inside it, and how a hospital's operating policies should stay aligned with the environment it serves.

Who Should Attend?

• Doctors moving into the hospital management specialty.
• Students and graduates of medical and health institutes who want to pursue further studies in health management.

What You Will Be Able To Do

• Define the duties and functions of health managers and hospital managers, and place them within the hospital's organisational hierarchy and functional structure.
• Distinguish supervisory responsibilities from the administrative functions carried out by middle managers.
• Identify what makes health service management unique, and build management strategies suited to it.
• Strengthen and build the practical capacity of health managers.
• Apply general operating policies that keep the organisation aligned with its environment, supporting its administrative functions.

Module 1: Management Principles Inside a Hospital

• Core principles of administration, and how hospital management applies them in practice.

Module 2: What Makes Hospital Management Different

• The distinctive characteristics that set hospital management apart from management in other industries.

Module 3: The Health Director's Role and Core Functions

• Health management as a discipline, and the specific functions a health director carries out.
• The basic functions every health management role needs to cover.

Module 4: What Health Management Is Trying to Achieve

• The objectives health management sets out to reach, and how they guide day-to-day decisions.