Applied Healthcare Project Management

Leading Toward a Global MPA Certification

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. 

This training is focused at creating heathcare project team member competencies, or those supporting the projects.   It is usually covered in a 3-day (21 hour) face-to-face program or an online equivalent.

It broadly covers scope, schedule, cost, team allocation, stakeholder, communications, procurement, risk management, issues management, and variation (change) management skills.

Join us to get insights into the Medical Project Management discipline that provides critical skills for those working in healthcare project teams or supporting healthcare organisations, and get a toolbox of 12 workplace templates that can improve your healthcare project management skills and results.

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 optional assessment and submitting the MPA certification application with the additional fee (US$147) payment.

The Course Content

It includes over 20 Learning Segments that comprise:

  1. About the Course
  2. Introduction to Medical Project Management
  3. Beyond Project Management Principles
  4. PM Standards and the 10 PM Knowledge Areas
  5. The Project Life Cycle
  6. The Project Categories
  7. Project Management Methodologies
  8. Project Team Roles and Responsibilities
  9. An Introduction to the Work Breakdown Structure
  10. Scope Management
  11. Schedule Management
  12. Cost Management
  13. Human Resource Management
  14. Quality Management
  15. Communication Management
  16. Stakeholder Management
  17. Procurement Management
  18. Risk Management
  19. Professional Recognition in Medical Project Management

It includes the following Additional Resources:

  • Short 10 question assessment
  • Certificate of Completion (once completed the education and questionnaire)
  • IIMPM Code of Ethics
  • Glossary of Terms
  • Glossary of Acronyms

It includes over 12 Microsoft® Word-based Templates (made available as downloadable templates) that you can use for personal use or for work use (although you cannot distribute them, make them available on a public online forum or on-sell them) that include:

Initiation Phase

  1. Project Proposal template
  2. Work Breakdown Structure template

Planning Phase

  1. Minor Project Plan template
  2. Major Project Plan
  3. Risk Management Plan template
  4. Quality Management Plan template
  5. Communications Management Plan template
  6. Human Resource Allocation Plan template
  7. Stakeholder Management Strategy template

Execution Phase

  1. Progress Status Report template
  2. Variation Request template
  3. Issues Register template

Close-Out Phase

  1. Close-Out Report template