Entry requirements

The Master’s in Healthcare, Welfare and Treatment Pathways is primarily open to students who have completed a first-year Master’s in the field of health or healthcare and social welfare. It is also open as a lifelong learning course to professionals in this sector who have management experience and wish to further their skills or take on new responsibilities.

Benefits of the program

The work-study programme allows students to complement their theoretical knowledge with practical training and an initial experience that will facilitate their professional integration. Throughout the course, students are supported by faculty and professionals employed in healthcare and social welfare organisations.

Teaching is based on numerous practical case studies and group work.

Acquired skills

The course is designed to enable students to develop the necessary skills for administrative functions in a healthcare service or establishment, or managerial roles in a healthcare and social welfare organisation.

These skills cover both management and the legal and regulatory requirements of careers in health and the healthcare and social welfare sector.

Capacities

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Course venue

Other course venue

Sainte-Anne Formation : GHU Paris - Site Sainte-Anne - Pavillon D - 1 rue Cabanis 75014 Paris

Your future career

The Master's degree focuses on professional skills and enables students to enter working life directly in positions of management and responsibility in health or social welfare establishments or services. They may also be involved in coordinating treatment pathways.

Our graduates go on to become nursing home directors, HR managers, quality managers, project managers, coordinators, etc.

Professional integration

18 months after the end of their training, 95% of graduates are in jobs related to their qualification (OFIPE statistics; Université Gustave Eiffel).

Our graduates go on to become nursing home directors, HR managers, quality managers, project managers, etc.

Study objectives

The Healthcare, Welfare and Treatment Pathways Master’s equips students with an overall understanding of the social, institutional, economic and managerial challenges of healthcare. It enables them to initiate, support and enhance ongoing assessment policies for service quality.

Major thematics of study

The degree focuses on two main areas of study: knowledge of the legal and administrative framework of the health and social welfare sector, and management.

During the course, students acquire the knowledge required to take on roles of responsibility in this sector. At the end of their studies, they are familiar with the main elements of health policy; the changing health needs of communities; the administrative structure that governs this sector; governance and financing practices; quality; ethics, etc. In managerial terms, they acquire skills in all management disciplines: HRM; project management; financial management; strategy; law; sociology; information systems.

Calendar

The course schedule alternates between one week at the university and two weeks in a healthcare institution, between September and June.

Minimum work placement duration: 16 weeks.

Options

The optional unit allows students to specialise according to their career objectives. They can choose to study either health networks (using the examples of gerontology and oncology) or the logistics required for exercising positions of responsibility in the healthcare sector.