MEU9005 Introduction to Leadership and Change Management in Health Professional Education

3 credit points

Leader: Dr Tangerine Holt

MEU9005 will develop the participant’s understanding of the factors influencing the introduction and implementation of change, models of change management and their relationship to educational leadership. The unit requires the application of basic theoretical perspectives to the participant's unique educational setting.

On completion of this unit, participants will be able to:

1. Describe effective educational change management processes including the drivers, barriers and catalysts to implementation;
2. Design an effective change management plan to facilitate a change in educational practice that is relevant to the individual student's educational context;
3. Describe the key attributes of effective educational leadership;
4. Apply the key educational leadership attributes to their change management plans.

Please Note: This elective (MEU9005) is an independent study unit that does not require on-campus Study Day attendance.

Assessment