Master's degree in Rehabilitation Science in Healthcare Professions

The course aims to provide knowledge about the departmental organization of Health Services and the distinctive attributes of different welfare organization models; to understand the basics of Clinical Governance and organizational analysis and their main tools; to know how to determine the equipment needs of a rehabilitation service and their clinical documentation; and to identify the characteristics, purposes, functions, therapeutic and rehabilitative demands of DSMs - part of the Department of Mental Health. MANAGEMENT APPLIED TO SERVICES The course aims to understand the different aspects of the processes of Health Professions; to identify the role profile of the Rehabilitation Area Manager; to understand the basics of Clinical Governance and its main tools; to learn the fundamentals of organizational analysis and the theoretical application of complex adaptive systems; to determine the equipment needs for inpatient and outpatient services with variable volumes and activities; to know how to plan absences in a group of professionals; to know how to calculate volumes of activities in an outpatient setting; to understand risk management applied to rehabilitation services; to understand and apply the main tools of project and change management; to recognize and manage the main problems related to outpatient activities; and to understand the potential and critical issues of rehabilitation clinical documentation systems. MANAGEMENT METHODOLOGY The course aims to identify the characteristics, purposes, functions and decision-making levels of a Department; to recognize the strengths and weaknesses of Lean Healthcare (theories and principles of Lean Organization applied to healthcare); to define the components of the organizational assistance models; to read the reference organizational context; to recognize the management actions needed to define the workplace, the primary tools and address integration issues; to provide knowledge of the correct management of human resources (professional development and skills perspective) and to identify the features of a complex budget structure. ORGANIZATIONAL MODELS IN PSYCHIATRIC REHABILITATION The course aims to provide concrete and contextualized information on psychiatry and the organizational context after the Basaglia Law; to understand the current organizational choice of psychiatric services in a bio-psycho-social dimension. The course will also introduce essential elements to understand normative references on Mental Health; to define the characteristics, purposes, functions and decision-making levels of the Department of Mental Health; to understand the organizational components of the Department of Mental Health; to identify the characteristics, purposes, and functions of the structures belonging to the Department of Mental Health and to understand the therapeutic-rehabilitative provision of DSMs in the life cycle.