


The Master of Health Leadership and Policy (MHLP) in Seniors Care offers a bold approach to professional graduate education in health care. Seventy per cent of the courses you’ll take are health care focused and offered through the UBC Faculty of Applied Science. The remaining 30 per cent are business courses offered through UBC Sauder’s Robert H. Lee Graduate School.
Many courses use a flipped classroom format. This means you are expected to independently review course content ahead of classroom time through assigned readings and lecture videos. The classes themselves are then an opportunity for engaged learning – discussing and applying what you’ve learned through case studies, group project work and demonstrations.
The MHLP is a demanding program that requires you to attend classes and events, work on group projects, study and complete assignments outside of class time.
In August, all MHLP students must take APPP 504: Business acumen for technical leaders. This intensive three-week course requires daily attendance. If you chose to work while pursuing your degree, you will need to book these three weeks off work.
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The program is offered in a stacked schedule, with full-time students typically attending classes for two full days per week. This provides some flexibility for health-care professionals to continue part-time work or casual work. For example, you might work one or two days a week when you are not on campus.
If you are completing the MHLP in Seniors Care part time over 24 months, you will take your business leadership courses and two health-care courses in the first 12-month period. In the second year of the program, you will complete the remainder of your core health-care courses in the Faculty of Applied Science.
Over the two years of part-time study, you’ll attend classes alongside both full-time and part-time students in a stacked schedule of two half-days per week between Monday and Friday. Part-time students often work up to a 0.8 schedule, or four days a week, throughout their 24-month program.
This course examines the trends and social and institutional policies and practices that influence the health and illness profiles of particular population groups, with a particular focus on seniors; it also explores trends in the social organization of service delivery and their impact on the health of seniors.
By the end of this course, students will be able to:
Enacting philosophies of care: This course examines the interface between aging and health and examines how different philosophies to care are enacted in a range of practice settings and considers indicators of their impact on seniors’ health. The course includes field work and site visits.
By the end of this course, students will be able to:
Understand the behaviour of people and groups and how this applies to management and leadership within professional organizations. This course explores motivation, group dynamics, organizational structure, leadership styles and tools for assessing organizational effectiveness. The course is collaboratively delivered with the Faculty of Commerce and Business Administration.
By the end of this course, students will be able to:
Develop skills for leading complex multidisciplinary projects by using management processes that include: project management frameworks, standards, planning, scheduling and estimating, communication and risk management. Case studies in industry-relevant project management will be incorporated into the course. This course is collaboratively delivered with the Faculty of Commerce and Business Administration.
By the end of this course, students will be able to:
This course will help students critically appraise and evaluate evidence related to seniors care and consider strategies for fostering uptake of evidence in organizational policies and practice. The course is delivered in the summer term in a condensed intensive fashion. This interdisciplary course includes both face-to-face classes and online classes; in-person classes are typically scheduled at the beginning and end of the term.
By the end of this course, students will be able to:
This course is specifically designed for the MHLP in Seniors Care and focuses on the organizational considerations for fostering health and managing health threats for seniors. This course is offered in an intensive format, includes classroom and online classes and immediately follows NURS 504.
By the end of this course, students will be able to:
An asset to the aspiring technical leader, business acumen is knowing how business works and applying that knowledge with the goal of business improvement. This course offers an elevated perspective of how technical skills contribute to building value in a business. The course immerses aspiring technical leaders in the practical application of core business skills and the development of six core business competencies, which are presented as modules: Managerial Accounting, Strategy and Performance, Market Evaluation, Operations Management, Negotiations and Contract Management and Business-Case Building and Valuation. This course is collaboratively delivered with the Faculty of Commerce and Business Administration.
By the end of this course, students will be able to:
This course examines the characteristics of social and built environments that are developmentally appropriate to supporting and fostering the health of seniors with a range of abilities. Built environments, both public and private, institutional and community-based, are considered in the relation to health and aging. This course builds on learning around organizational considerations and care philosophies introduced in platform courses to focus on how built care and living environments shape and are shaped by older populations.
By the end of this course, students will be able to:
This course will engage students in the study of the processes and strategies influencing health and social policy, and the social and political contexts in which policy is created.
By the end of this course, students will be able to:
Students can choose a UBC Sauder Business Course to gain greater exposure to a particular area of interest. Options include (subject to change):
This course will introduce students to the key concepts and tools needed to understand and effectively manage supply chains and business operations in general. A key concept in this course is the “business process”, and managing and improving such processes.
This course explores the core principles of branding within the context of social and environmental responsibility including healthcare, sustainability and human rights. Fundamental marketing strategies are reinforced as they relate specifically to: 1) non-profits, 2) social marketing designed to change society’s behaviour and 3) cause-related-marketing within the corporate sector.
This course is designed to make you a better decision maker by helping you understand your weaknesses and build on your strengths in decision-making. This is an integrative course that links material from Economics, Operations, Statistics, Marketing, Psychology, Finance, and Strategy.
*Course offering subject to change.
The Creative Destruction Lab Venture Program is a 3-credit course in entrepreneurship in which students will work with the Creative Destruction Lab West (CDL-West) team to help emerging technology and science focused start-ups. Students will become familiar with the CDL-West companies and will have the opportunity to support with market analysis, customer development, financial analysis, and other core activities related to building early stage start-ups. Students will be provided with visibility into how venture capitalists and angel investors make investment decisions.
This course helps students build skills to lead change that influences the triple bottom line and explores concepts related to sustainability, change agency systems thinking, awareness and perspective for engagement and communication, adaptive leadership, and change dynamics. It also incorporates case studies in organizational and social change. This course is collaboratively delivered with the Faculty of Commerce and Business Administration.
By the end of this course, students will be able to:
2023 Application Deadlines
The online application portal for 2024 admission opens on January 1, 2023.
Round 1: March 30, 2023
Round 2: June 30, 2023
Round 3 (Canadian Citizens, Permanent Residents of Canada, and US citizens only): August 30, 2023
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