Department of Health Administration
Introduction to the Department
The Department of Health Administration at Kwangju Women’s University, the only four-year women’s university in the Gwangju and Jeonnam region, established the Department of Medical Information in 2005 and changed its name to the Department of Health Administration in 2010. The department cultivates professional female personnel who will lead the healthcare industry related to the promotion of public health.
The department provides both hospital practice education through advanced educational facilities and field education through clinical practice.
It is growing into a top-tier prestigious department that produces various professionals related to the healthcare industry, including health information managers, hospital administrators, health insurance specialists, hospital coordinators, international medical tourism coordinators, insurance claims reviewers, and claims adjusters.
Educational Goals
First, to cultivate practice-oriented talents in the field of health services. Second, to cultivate creative talents in the field of healthcare responsible for protecting public health. Third, to cultivate active talents who lead the future industry of health and medical information.
Vision
Pride - A department that gives students pride in their choice of major Partner - A lifelong partner department for MAUM Sharing Education Professional - A department that cultivates healthcare management professionals Practical - A department that practices practical education through field practice training
Course Descriptions
- 01
Claims Adjustment Theory
This course cultivates the basic abilities required for claims adjusters by helping students acquire overall knowledge of insurance studies, including risk management theory, insurance management theory, insurance market theory, insurance business law, and insurance contract law.
- 02
Health and Medical Statistics
This course teaches the concepts of health and medical statistics, health and medical statistical indicators, descriptive statistics in the healthcare field, inferential statistics in the healthcare field, and research methodology in the healthcare field.
- 03
Quality Management in Healthcare
This course helps students acquire knowledge of healthcare quality management, including the concept of healthcare quality management, quality management tools, quality management methods, healthcare quality evaluation indicators, patient safety, and the medical institution accreditation system.
- 04
Health Communication
Through understanding theories and practice of health communication, this course cultivates students’ ability to analyze difficult health communication situations and communicate effectively.
- 05
Cancer Registration
This course helps students understand types of cancer, cancer staging, differentiation, grades, and related concepts, and learn the procedures for performing cancer registration work according to national cancer registration guidelines.
- 06
Health Insurance Theory and Practice
This course helps students acquire the knowledge necessary to perform insurance management duties in healthcare settings by understanding basic knowledge of insurance, including the National Health Insurance Act, and standards for medical care benefits.
- 07
Health Program Development and Evaluation
Through acquiring theories and knowledge concerning the development, implementation, and evaluation of health projects, this course cultivates the basic abilities required of health educators in health field settings.
- 08
Health Information Management Practice
This course cultivates students’ ability to ensure the creation of high-quality medical record data and to collect, analyze, and utilize complete and accurate data and information based on such records.
- 09
Medical Record Information Quality Improvement Practice
This course helps students understand knowledge and techniques for improving the quality of medical record information, and cultivates practical application abilities for effective inquiry and completeness management of medical record information based on clinical medicine and classification guidelines.
- 10
Medical Laws and Regulations
This course cultivates students’ ability to solve issues related to medical laws and regulations by helping them learn relevant laws, including understanding the legal system, laws concerning medical technicians, the Medical Service Act, and the Infectious Disease Control and Prevention Act.
- 11
Insurance Claims Practice
This course helps students acquire the knowledge necessary to perform insurance management duties in healthcare settings by understanding basic knowledge of insurance, including the National Health Insurance Act, and standards for medical care benefits.
- 12
Field Practice
By actually performing health information management duties, students cultivate practical health information management abilities through field experience by integrating and applying theories and practice learned at school.
- 13
Medical Informatics
This course helps students acquire knowledge for quickly collecting information using various media and methods, systematically organizing and converting it into databases according to the purpose of use, managing it, and evaluating the value of data.
- 14
Health and Medical Big Data Analysis
This course teaches concepts of health and medical big data, big data analysis techniques, text mining, and decision-making using big data.
- 15
Medical Record SQL Practice
This course helps students understand the basics of database query language, SQL, and database concepts, and cultivate the ability to search and use databases in medical institutions.
- 16
Medical Information Technology
This course helps students understand specialized knowledge of computer theory for the efficient performance of health and medical information duties, and cultivate comprehensive computer utilization abilities related to information management, resource protection, and security.
- 17
Patient Administration Management Theory
This course helps students understand patient registration procedures, medical fee management, and methods for improving medical services for inpatients, and cultivates patient administration management abilities based on patient administration systems according to the characteristics of medical institutions.
- 18
Public Health
This course cultivates basic understanding of health and disease, public health, population and health statistics, epidemiology and disease management, environmental health, diet and health, and health administration.
- 19
Anatomy and Physiology
This course helps students understand anatomical and physiological classifications of the human body and acquire basic knowledge of anatomy and physiology, including the structure and connections of the human body.
- 20
Medical Terminology 1, 2, and Practical Medical Terminology
This course analyzes the basic structure, or components, of medical terminology and cultivates students’ ability to interpret health and medical information by understanding terms related to symptoms, diagnoses, treatments, and examinations by body system based on anatomical and physiological knowledge.
- 21
Health and Medical Organization Management
This course helps students understand health and medical organizations and learn hospital personnel management tasks, including job management, recruitment management, education and training, evaluation management, compensation management, and maintenance management.
- 22
Health Education
This course cultivates students’ understanding of and ability to perform health education by helping them acquire knowledge of health education theories, health education processes, health education methods, and health education media.
- 23
Basic Statistics
This course cultivates students’ ability to apply statistical inference methods in decision-making processes and to extract information and use statistical techniques through SPSS.
- 24
Health Information Management
This course cultivates the job competencies of health information managers by helping students acquire knowledge of health information management necessary to collect, create, and utilize high-quality health and medical data and information.
- 25
Pathology
This course helps students understand the causes, occurrence, progress, and changes of diseases, and cultivates the ability to understand the contents of each disease included in health and medical information, including the mechanisms of major diseases by body system.
- 26
Hospital Financial Accounting
This course helps students understand the hospital accounting system, including the accounting cycle, financial statement analysis, and calculation of health and medical financial information, and cultivates the ability to analyze the system and provide information.
- 27
Health and Medical Data Management
This course helps students acquire database knowledge and skills necessary to collect, analyze, and utilize health and medical data, and cultivate effective data processing abilities based on them.
- 28
Medical Record Information Analysis Practice 1, 2, 3, 4
This course helps students acquire knowledge of medical record forms and documentation items necessary for performing duties, and learn methods for accurately understanding medical terminology, medical abbreviations, and patient information recorded in medical records.
- 29
Classification of Diseases and Medical Procedures 1, 2, 3, 4
This course teaches knowledge of disease and medical procedure classification, including the structure and classification principles of disease and medical procedure classification systems, classification of diseases and medical procedures by body system, and guidelines for selecting and classifying underlying causes of death.
- 30
Insurance Contract Law
This course cultivates the basic abilities required for claims adjusters by helping students acquire knowledge of insurance-related provisions of commercial law, explanations of basic theories, and recent judicial precedents.