Study Guide

Descriptions

The Master's Degree Programme in Health care diagnostics is a joint programme for students with biomedical laboratory scientist and radiographer backgrounds. These are health care diagnostic professions having many common features and even shared areas of job description e.g. in the field of nuclear medicine. Acting in the interface of patients, service systems and technology these professions are multifaceted. The program has many common intersections and studies with Health Business Management and Health Technology programmes and also some joint studies with these programmes.

Studies associated with quality of diagnostic services are realised in cooperation with six universities of applied sciences educating biomedical laboratory scientists and radiographers in Finland and bringing the students joy of familiarising themselves with students from various parts of Finland. The possibility to perform all the studies online gives students living even far from Helsinki and outside Finland the possibility to join the group. Studying in a heterogeneous international group fosters sharing innovative ideas and new ways of thinking. It is a natural way of networking nationally and internationally leading to growing opportunities in students’ career pathways in the future.

During the studies the student will acquire advanced level competences on research and development as well as project management activities. Upon completion of the advanced professional studies, the student is capable of planning, executing and assessing quality management of clinical laboratory/radiography services. He/she will also get good competences on designing and managing modern diagnostic services including artificial intelligence and robotics based services.

In her/his Master thesis 30 ECTS the student shows her/his independent competences on research and development activities on one’s own field of expertise. In addition to being expert in one’s own field, the student shows her/his competences on academic way of reporting and presenting one’s project. This project is often associated with the student’s work place, other companies, public or private organisations on the field, ongoing projects in Metropolia innovation hubs or other stakeholders.

Objective

The skills and knowledge of students graduated from Metropolia University of Applied Sciences are described according to the NQF, National Qualifications Framework, and the recommendations of the Rectors' Conference of Finnish Universities of Applied Sciences.

General competences: competence descriptions

Learning competence
• lifelong learning competence: is able to self-evaluate and develop one's expertise in a versatile and focused way
• is able to retrieve, analyse and produce information and evaluate it critically from the viewpoint of different fields
• is able to supervise and mentor others and to share one's expertise
• is capable of taking responsibility for collaborative learning in a target-oriented way

Ethical competence
• is able to take responsibility for the actions of a community and their consequences as well as to
evaluate the effects of the actions
• is able to apply the ethical principles of the subject field as an expert and as a developer of working life
• is able to make responsible and sustainable decisions, considering an individual and the community
• is able to contribute to the principles of equality in working life
• is able to contribute to the principles of sustainable development and social responsibility
• is able to leading socially influential activities based on ethical values

Working community competence
• is able to develop and lead the operation of a diverse and multidisciplinary work community and to improve its wellbeing and productivity
• is able to develop working life communication and interaction in a participatory way, taking diversity
into account
• is able to apply technological possibilities in working life communication and interaction
• is able to create and lead networks and partnerships
• is capable of managing and supervising tasks and improving activities in complicated and
unpredictable environments
• is capable of working in demanding expert, entrepreneur, management and supervision tasks. as an expert or entrepreneur, and has abilities for management and supervision tasks

Innovation competence
• is able to create new knowledge and improve existing working methods by combining expertise from different fields
• is capable of managing projects
• is able to manage research, development and innovation projects and masters the methods of research and development work
• is able to develop innovative, customer-oriented, sustainable and cost-effective solutions

Multicultural competence
• is capable of managing and developing multicultural, international networks and working communities
• is able to predict the effects of and opportunities for global development and phenomena in one’s own field
• is capable of demanding international communication and interaction

Technological competence
• is able to apply technological opportunities in management, expert and development work
• is able to predict the effects of technological development on one's field, work and operating environment
• is capable of promoting technological development and its utilisation in one's field

Degree-specific competences: competence descriptions

Diagnostic service competences
The student is able to:
• utilize extensive and highly specialized skills and knowledge in studying and developing diagnostic services;
• apply the concepts and methodology of social and health care to his/her independent reflection and/or development of one's professional field;
• function in the diverse and changing environments of diagnostic services.

Competences on managing and developing the quality of diagnostic services
• The student is able to justify and optimise diagnostic methods
• The student is able to plan, execute and evaluate the implementation and development of diagnostic methods.
• The student is able to assess and develop patient centered and patient safety diagnostic services
• The student is able to utilize his/her mentoring- and consultation competence as a clinical expert in multi-professional healthcare teams and at customer interfaces.
• The student improves guidance and consultation activities by utilizing evidence-based practice in the selected area of diagnostic services
• The student is able to evaluate diagnostic service safety culture critically and develop and manage it considering the current health policy

Competences on developing and managing modern future diagnostic services
The student is able to:
• design and develop patient centered and safe clinical laboratory/radiography services;
• follow high ethical standards in front-line managerial work;
• work in front-line managerial positions in the fields of clinical laboratory/radiography services;
• understand what needs to be taken into account in managing artificial intelligence and robotics based diagnostic services.