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February
International Masters in Health Technology Assessment and Management (Ulysses Program)
Location: Montreal (Quebec, Canada), Rome (Italy), Barcelona (Spain) and Ottawa (Ontario, Canada)
The Ulysses Master’s Program in HTA&M is currently accepting applications for its fourth cohort. Taught by internationally acclaimed faculty, the Ulysses program offers students cutting edge training in the principles, methods and impacts of HTA&M in a unique global learning environment. Our program’s intensive format adapts to the needs, skills, and expectations of clinicians and other full time professionals and to those of graduate students who wish to concentrate on completion of a master’s dissertation.
The pedagogical format comprises four two-week teaching sessions held in different cities (Montreal, Rome, Barcelona and Ottawa) over a 20-month period, and completion of an internship or a Master’s thesis. Throughout the program, information technology is used to facilitate exchanges between students and faculty members located in different parts of the world.
The 60 Ulysses alumni include doctors, nurses, engineers, lawyers, political scientists and pharmacists and come from 14 different countries around the globe: Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Germany, Hong Kong, Iran, Italy, Latvia, Mexico, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, and the United Kingdom.
The provisional schedule for the fourth cohort (2007-2009) includes 8 courses structured in four Modules. Dates are an approximation.
Module I: October 2007 (Montréal)
Principles and Practices in HTA (EPIB656)
Methods in Technology AssessmentModule II: May 2008 (Barcelona)
Economic Evaluation
Health Policy AnalysisModule III: Octobre 2008 (Rome)
Institutional Management and Impact Evaluation
Ethical, sociocultural and Legal Issues in HTA&MModule IV: May 2009 (Ottawa)
Clinical Decision-Making
Presentation of students’ projects
Applications for the 2007-2009 cohort are due in early 2007. Students may register for Ulysses via one of five Universities (University of Montreal, University of Toronto, Universita Cattolica in Rome, University of Barcelona and International University of Catalonia). For more information, please see: http://www.ulyssesprogram.net/, or contact Stephanie Tailliez stephanie.tailliez@umontreal.ca.
February
An Introduction to Measuring Efficiency in Public Sector Organisations: Analytical techniques and policy: CHE, University of York
Location: York, England, UK
Dates: 7-9 February 2007
Registration Deadline: 22 January 2007
Workshop at the Centre for Health Economics, University of York
Workshop Presenters: Rowena Jacobs, Peter C. Smith and Andrew Street
This three-day workshop will provide an introduction to the use of techniques for measuring the relative efficiency of public sector organisations. The two measurement tools concentrated on will be Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA) and Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA).
Areas to be covered include:
- the context and purpose of productivity and efficiency measurement
- the economic theories underpinning efficiency measurement techniques
- how to conduct analysis
- the similarities and differences between techniques and
- the interpretation and application of results to support policy objectives
The workshop will introduce participants to computer software with which they will be able to apply the techniques to data during practical sessions. Throughout the workshop there will be a strong focus on the policy interest in these techniques.
The presenters have worked extensively in this area and will guide participants through the potential pitfalls of measuring efficiency using case studies and practical examples.
Full details: http://www.york.ac.uk/inst/che/training/measurecourse.htm
February 7, 2007: Short Course
February
International Master's Degree in Health Economics and Pharmacoeconomics: CRES (Research Centre for Health and Economics) and IDEC (Continuing Education Institute), Pompeu Fabra University
Location: Distance Learning Programme
Dates: 28 February 2007
Website: http://www.idec.upf.edu/mesiol
About us: This distance learning programme is based on the wide experience in on-site academic education provided by 13 editions of the Master’s Degree in Health Economics and Health Care Management given at Pompeu Fabra University, which in its early years was taught in conjunction with the University of Barcelona. This distance learning programme also takes advantage of the experience provided by the various editions of the Spanish online course taught since 2002.
The materials for the distance modules have been prepared by researchers of renowned international prestige working at the UPF Research Centre for Economics and Health (CRES) and teaching staff of the Department of Economics and Business and the Department of Health Sciences of Pompeu Fabra University (Barcelona, Spain), together with other collaborators, all with proven academic and professional experience. The content of the various courses combines the explanation of the methodological foundations with the use of the instruments, based on the publications of the faculty and collaborators and the discussion of case studies taken from the specialist literature.
UPF and the Continuing Education Institute (IDEC) of Pompeu Fabra University provide all the necessary information technology infrastructure and other resources for the smooth running of the course. Taking advantage of the new possibilities offered by the information technologies, this course will be taught entirely online, combining the use of web technology, hypertexts and e-mail to allow continual teacher/participant and participant/teacher interaction
Course Content
- Module 1: Economic Evaluation of Pharmaceuticals and Medical Technologies (1): Basic Concepts
- Module 2: Quantitative Techniques Applied to Health Service Management
- Module 3: Economics and Policies of Pharmaceutical Financing
- Module 4: Economic Evaluation of Pharmaceuticals and Medical Technologies (2): Advances
- Module 5: Drug Management in Health Systems
- Module 6: Health Economics (1)
- Module 7: Health Economics (2)
- Module 8: Term Paper