Brief Course Description
1. Course Title:
Project Management in Healthcare
2. Language of Instruction:
Tiếng Việt
3. Course Code:
PRO602040
4. Credits:
3
5. Course Objectives:
6. Brief Description of Course Content:
Project management is practically a combination of science and art. Artistic here refers to people or project management skills. The science that encompasses the management tools and techniques that form the foundations of the project management process. The Project Management course integrates management knowledge through basic project management concepts, frameworks, processes and tools to solve project implementation problems in order to create and deliver specific renderings that meet certain scope, quality, time, and budget requirements
This course is divided into 5 parts
- Part one provides an overview of project and project management, thereby helping students understand important concepts related to project and project management such as nature, project life cycle, project management processes, the importance of project management, the members involved in the project, the project manager, and the project organizational structure.
- Part two equips knowledge related to project initiation and selection. This section presents issues on the project formation process, the alignment between the project and the strategy, the project selection models as well as the criteria for model selection. At the end of part two, the components of a project statement are needed to effectively communicate information to stakeholders.
- Part three focuses on the problem of project planning. This section covers the importance of project planning and basic project planning frameworks, defines project goals, develops work lists, organizes project teams, sets project schedules, resource planning and cost estimation. This part also equips students to draw progress diagrams (AON, GANTT…) through excel tools.
- Part four describes how to optimize project schedule through resource balancing and analyze project time and cost trade-offs. This section also equips students with how to optimize progress through excel tools.
- Part five presents project implementation and control including project initiation, project control process, project objective control and project change control.