Admission requirements

You need to have completed a three-year training as a medical assistant, dental assistant, OTA, healthcare or nursing professional, or a comparable training, or a valid training contract in one of these professions with at least one successfully completed year of training. Furthermore, you need to have a general higher education entrance qualification, subject-specific higher education entrance qualification, or entrance qualification for universities of applied sciences. Alternatively, you can start without a school-leaving qualification by means of an advanced training course, an aptitude test, or one year of successful study at a university outside of Baden-Württemberg.

Details

The Bachelor's degree programme in Practice and Care Management is specifically designed for Medical Assistants and Dental Assistants who wish to advance their careers in the healthcare sector. Graduates of this programme are prepared for the professional requirements in medical practices and hospitals. This is particularly relevant in times of change in the healthcare sector, where larger institutions and new collaborations increasingly require professional management skills.

 

You will learn to coordinate team-oriented, interprofessional collaboration. You will be able to manage collaborations and contracts with health insurance companies. You will acquire knowledge that will enable you to design care pathways and optimally utilize digitization in healthcare.

In semesters four to six, you will focus on advanced topics such as outpatient healthcare facilities, interprofessional communication, and case and care management. Additionally, you have the opportunity to sharpen your profile through elective modules such as Healthcare Marketing and Telemedical Services.

This distance learning programme is flexible and allows you to complete it alongside your professional activities. A special feature is the recognition of content from your previous education, which shortens the standard period of study.