Healthcare Management
I found the MSc Healthcare Management course at Kent and saw it had good credentials. Kent seemed like a great place for international students too.
‘I started my career as a banker, so the only experience I had of healthcare was as a patient. After having my own children, I started looking in the healthcare industry and I landed a job working for Tristate Cardiovascular Associates as a Business Manager.
I knew I had strong administrative business skills but healthcare, I realised, was a unique sector and to excel in it, I’d need to plug the gaps in my knowledge by taking an additional qualification. The UK seemed the most natural choice as the healthcare system is admired across the world. I wanted to gain further skills at an established university.
I found the MSc Healthcare Management course at Kent and saw it had good credentials. Kent seemed like a great place for international students too. So, I moved to the UK with my family, securing places for my three children in the local schools.’
Moronke’s life-changing move hasn’t been in vain. Not only has the business side of her Master’s greatly improved her administration skills, but the healthcare side has improved her sector knowledge, giving her the confidence to go for more senior roles in healthcare.
‘What really came home to me during my MSc is that the patient should be at the centre of everything in a healthcare organisation. When that fails, everything in the system struggles. For instance, if a care home has a 35-minute cap on patient feeding time, what happens if staff don’t use that time efficiently? The patient suffers. Policy implementation is vital in any healthcare organisation and this is one of the areas where I’m really interested in making a change.’
In addition to finding a course she loves at Kent, Moronke has met new people from all over the world and is thriving as part of a diverse cohort: ‘I have made friends from Barbados, India, China – many different places. We’re often placed in groups and asked to read research studies and present our findings, helping us to understand and reflect critically on what we’re learning, and get to know more about each other in the process.’
With hopes of staying in the UK for some time after she graduates, Moronke is keen to use her new-found knowledge to make changes in the sector: ‘I’d like to gain experiential knowledge beyond the classroom, applying everything I’ve learned within a role in the UK healthcare sector.’
And that’s what postgraduate study at Kent is all about: big, ambitious leaps that lead to new, exciting opportunities. So, make that change – if Moronke can, you can too.
