eLEAP

Family Health 1 block is a community-oriented course that expands throughout Year 1. This course enables the students to acquire knowledge and skills in identifying various aspects and assessment of family structure, family dynamics and family health through the guided interaction with foster families. The student's communication skills would be enhanced through the interaction in the family and community activities. The teaching-learning activities complement the blocks in Year 1. The assessment methods include continuous assessment (report, community-based project and logbook) and final assessment (oral presentation). 

This course is a major posting in Year 4 for undergraduate students. Students will learn about introduction to orthopaedic and basic orthopaedic emergencies which is commonly encountered in medical field. 

The MDP60402 Healthcare Management course is one of the courses taught in the MPH programme.

This course emphasises on the application of management theories and principles in health care management. The course shall cover the following areas: basic principles of management, health care management, basic financial management and human resource management.

This course focuses on concepts and theories of demography and population dynamics. It also encompasses the factors that influence population growth. The course includes topics related to population issues and problems, as well as government policies and related programs

This course will discuss the laws and regulations of concern to the Ministry of Health Malaysia and their relevance to the medical and health practices locally. Some of these laws will be discussed in depth. Students will examine these laws concerning the rationale of their evolvement, authority, enforcement, offences, and others. Students are also to take the opportunity to follow the enforcement team during their activities and observe court cases when available.

This course also explains health policies, how they are formulated, and the objectives and functions of policies concerning health. This course will also expose students to laws and regulations pertinent to medicine and public health practices in Malaysia and their relevance at the international level.

The emphasis of this course is on the application of management concepts, theories and principles in certain areas of health care management.

The course shall cover the following areas:

•       Governance, stewardship and direction, Leadership organisation and management, Roles and functions at different levels in relation to health planning, organization, direction, staffing, control and motivation in health services and programme;

•       Principles of health human resource management aspects of individual, interpersonal and organisational as well as personnel/employee, resource and talent capital - management and development;

•       Managing change/transformation and transition; Decision-making delegation and empowerment – mission values and Vision, motivation and commitments, relationships and communications, bargaining and negotiating as well as ethics and morality in management in general and, in particular, healthcare settings.

This course focuses on developing sound statistical knowledge and skills for public health applications through lectures, readings, and computer labs, allowing “hands-on” analysis of real datasets. This involves identifying the most appropriate statistical techniques and modelling, applying them using statistical computing packages such as SPSS, JAMOVI, SmartPLS, etc., and interpreting the outputs. Students will be exposed to higher-level statistical analysis, including factor analysis, structural equation modelling, generalised equation modelling, cluster analysis, and survival analysis.