The Institute believes in practical and in-depth education for healthcare project team members that can lead to your professional recognition by a globally-recognised MPA certification. 

Agile project management approaches tend to deliver projects in cycles, and the most common methodology is known as Scrum.   This course provides a customised Scrum method designed for healthcare projects. 

Role Focus

This training is focused at creating the Scrum Master competencies. 

Educational Requirements

It requires the completion of the 2-day Agile Scrum Healthcare Project Management face-to-face program or an online equivalent.

Certificate Issued

A Certificate of Completion will be issued on completing the course.

Leads to Globally-recognised Certification

This course is a prerequisite educational program for attaining the international level of Medical Project Associate (MPA) certification, which can be gained by completing the course and submitting the MSM certification application with the additional fee (US$157) payment.

This course also develops participants to sit the Scrum.org Professional Scrum Master certification.  The examination must be booked and paid for directly with Scrum.org.

Course Content

The course covers the following topics:

  1. About the Course
  2. Introduction to Agile Methods
  3. Comparing traditional (waterfall) to agile PM methods
  4. Applying Agile Scrum Medical Project Management
  5. The Agile Scrum Healthcare Project Life Cycle
  6. Project Team Roles and Responsibilities
  7. An Introduction to the Work Breakdown Structure
  8. Scope Management
  9. Schedule Management
  10. Cost Management
  11. Human Resource Management
  12. Quality Management
  13. Communication Management
  14. Stakeholder Management
  15. Procurement Management
  16. Risk Management

Workplace Template Resources

It includes the following downloadable workplace templates:

Initiation Phase

  • Project Charter (Vision Statement)

Planning Phase

  • Product Master Log template
  • Scrum Log template
  • Story template
  • Sprint Planner template

Execution Phase

  • Issues Register template
  • Risk Register template
  • Demo template
  • Review template