Elective Disciplines of MBA

Amount of credits -5
Type of control-exam
The discipline is aimed at the formation of competencies for analytical and research activities in health care, training of highly qualified personnel, analysts in the field of financial and management analysis and ensuring the effective development of economic entities in an innovation-oriented economy. The study of the subject will allow to form knowledge and skills on the use of operational analytics in medical organizations.

Amount of credits -3
Type of control-exam
The discipline studies public health in a global context that can be defined as a field of study, research and practice, prioritizes improving health and achieving equity in health for all people all over the world. Global health is committed to improving global health, reducing inequalities and protecting against global threats.

Amount of credits -3
Type of control-exam
The discipline studies the use of information technology (IT) in medicine. The compilation of electronic disease cards, various applications will allow each employee of the healthcare system to instantly receive complete information about all diseases of the patient, as well as to the patient-operational long-term information. In addition to solving exclusively medical problems, the use of IT in medicine helps to optimize the management of a health care institution, distance education of health workers and the exchange of experience, communication with patients.

Amount of credits -3
Type of control-exam
Discipline studies the importance of leaders in the management of scientific and practical healthcare institutions. It increases even more during the transition period, when certainty is lost, the system of familiar relationships, management and financing schemes is changing. In these conditions, the leader and his qualities completely depend on the survival and development prospects of many teams.

Amount of credits -3
Type of control-exam
The discipline is aimed at training specialists with modern economic thinking, who know the methods of marketing in health care, forms students ‘ high economic culture, entrepreneurial and managerial skills and the ability to solve economic problems in the field of health care.

Amount of credits -4
Type of control-exam
The main purpose of this discipline is to study the possibility of modern organizations to use the achievements of the theory and practice of modern management. The course is aimed at developing effective management skills and the ability to make informed management decisions in the management of health care organizations. Discipline forms knowledge, skills and abilities in the field of theory and practice of management in health care.

Amount of credits -3
Type of control-exam
The discipline considers the issues of quality assurance in the health care system. The right to high-quality medicine is a basic right of people who use public medicine, and it is a condition for the continued existence of strong public medicine.

Amount of credits -4
Type of control-exam
The discipline deals with health technology assessment (HTA). HTA refers to the systematic assessment of the properties, effects and/or impacts of health technologies. The course aims to assess social, economic, organizational and ethical issues in relation to health or health technology. The main objective of the HTA is to provide a framework for informed policy decisions.

Amount of credits -4
Type of control-exam
The discipline studies the balanced scorecard (BSC), which is a management methodology, aimed at translating the company’s strategic goals into specific activities and evaluating their results with the help of KPI. BSC forms approaches that business success consists not only of Finance, but also of intangible aspects such as personnel, customers, processes.

Amount of credits -4
Type of control-exam
The discipline covers the main aspects of management accounting, starting from its place among other accounting and financial disciplines and ending with a detailed presentation of some of the most common in the practice of health organizations methods and techniques of processing accounting and financial information for management decision-making. Introduces the key sections of modern management accounting in health care.

Amount of credits -3
Type of control-exam
The discipline studies concrete quantitative and qualitative interrelations of economic objects and processes in health care by means of mathematical and statistical methods and models. The study of the subject gives an overview of the structure and capabilities of econometrics, including its recent achievements.

Amount of credits -5
Type of control-exam
The discipline studies the economic relations objectively developing in the course of medical activity. It forms students ‘ knowledge of economic laws and economic relations in specific conditions of provision and consumption of medical services, objectively limited resource opportunities and increasing needs for health services.

Amount of credits -3
Type of control-exam
The discipline examines moral issues related to the planning, activities and outcomes of health interventions. This involves an analysis of the values of health care itself, as well as the interaction of the health care system and society. The discipline of health ethics includes both a discussion of the professional ethics of the activity and a broader value context.