Courses & curriculum 2024 - 2025

Healthcare Policy, Innovation and Management (HPIM) has grown substantially since its first introduction in 2012. Today, the student body consists of a diverse group of Dutch and international students with various educational backgrounds, all looking to drive innovation in healthcare in a multidisciplinary manner. The innovation goals in the health domain have evolved in the last years, with important priorities including the need to address workforce shortages, financial sustainability, digital transformation, and shift to person-centered care.

These challenges and the needs of the diverse group of students will be mirrored in the new HPIM curriculum, which will come into effect in September 2024. In the new curriculum, students develop competencies (i.e. knowledge, skills, and attitudes) as Expert, Investigator, Innovator and Collaborator to become ‘the HPIM professional of the future’.  The new curriculum entails the same innovative teaching methods, such as workshops, skills training, debates and self-steering study teams. Students will be exposed to theories and concepts from health economics, governance, organisation and management. They will learn from experts from the field and work in teams on so-called ‘Authentic Professional Tasks’, which are complex, real-world tasks that resemble the kind of work they will do after graduating. In the new curriculum, more attention is also given to personal development and there are increased options to personalize part of the programme to students’ individual interests.

Download a presentation of the new curriculum.