Bayes specialises in preparing professionals for leadership. With our strong research background in healthcare business intelligence and leadership, we have collaborated with clinicians, healthcare partners and experts to create this bespoke medical leadership programme.
Key Information
Eligibility check form (apprenticeship-levy route): Click on the Apply now button to check if you are eligible to apply for the September 2024 Intake.
Onboarding application: The link for eligible candidates to apply will close Monday August 5th 2024.
Closing deadline: Monday, 5th August 2024
Self-Funding applicants (non-levy route): Applications will close Monday August 5th 2024
Delivery: Part-time
Total UK credits: 180
Total ECTS: 90
Tuition fee: £14,000*
Apprenticeship levy funding: Eligible organisations will be able to use £14,000 of their apprenticeship levy funding to cover the overall cost. For more information please contact Ruth Velenski by email.
*Covering tuition fees and End Point Assessment
Programme summary
The Executive Master's in Medical Leadership (EMML) is a specialised MSc degree that offers advanced leadership training to doctors. The programme develops leaders who can transform healthcare systems for patients and communities. Grounded in research showing that medical leadership improves healthcare system performance, this degree is distinct in targeting doctors – and we have structured it in a way to fit into your busy schedule as a doctor, by offering the degree on a part-time, flexible basis.
A key feature of our programme is its dual focus on personal development and research-based conceptual knowledge. The aim is to combine master's-level learning about people, innovation and change in healthcare with your own development as an effective leader. In so doing we will be drawing on the Business School’s world-class research capabilities and experience of executive development.
We are confident about the EMML because we have evidenced the measurable outcomes, including behaviours and promotions, in research involving 70 of our EMML doctors. A summary of these outcomes can be found here.
Programme structure
The programme is designed and structured to allow for intellectual progression through core modules taught over a two year period. You will attend one two-day block session (on a Friday and Saturday) each month during the academic year (September through June). Additionally, you will have the opportunity to attend social and networking events where you can engage with the larger community of Bayes alumni and friends in healthcare.
Programme Schedule and Modules
Year 1 modules
Term 1: September to December
Induction (not a module)
1. Personal Leadership Development for Experts and Professionals*
2. Leading People and Change in Healthcare*
Term 2: January - April
3. Expert Leadership*
4. Managerial Accounting and Business Planning for Medical Leaders*
Term 3: May -June
5. Work Based Leadership Impact Project (Part 1)*
6. Healthcare Analytics*
Year 2 modules
Term 1: September to December
7. Healthcare Analytics*
8. Strategic Management of Health Care Organisations*
Term 2: January - April
9. Marketing and Machine Learning*
10.Leading Innovation in Healthcare*
Work Based Leadership Impact Project (Part 2)
Term 3: May - June
Writing up and submission of Work Based Impact Project*
July - September
Apprenticeship End Point Assessment - Leading to Chartered Management Status with CMI.*
Graduation: The ceremony will occur in January the following year, after the successful completion of the Master’s degree and the Level 7 apprenticeship.
* All modules run for the full day unless otherwise indicated, this is a standard schedule but maybe subject to change each year.
Programme benefits
Our degree will enable you to realise the Faculty of Medical Leadership and Management’s Leadership and Management Standards for Medical Professionals.
Personal leadership development – You will develop reflective awareness of your own leadership and management style, strengths and weaknesses. This personal development focus is built into our curriculum. You will learn how to negotiate successfully, manage conflict and difficult conversations. You will have regular sessions with an experienced executive coach who will work with you to recognise and meet the leadership and managerial challenges you face.
Conceptual knowledge – You will be introduced to conceptual knowledge that will be critical to your development as manager and leader. This includes contextual knowledge (e.g. regulation and policy) that will allow you to engage with and transform health systems; people management skills (e.g. teams, managing culture, decision-making, negotiations) that will help you effectively mobilise support from others; and analytical knowledge (e.g. managerial accounting, health care analytics) that will give you practical tools that you need to identify, communicate, and achieve improvements in your own organisation.
A practical emphasis – Our emphasis on experiential learning will help you translate the conceptual knowledge into practical application. The programme is designed around exercises, cases, simulations, action learning sets and other experiential tools.
An impact project – As part of the programme you will complete a leadership impact project that enables you to synthesise what you have learned and apply it in your career. You will lead and implement a change project in a host healthcare organisation. The specific task will be negotiated with the participating institution, which could be your own or another organisation. The project will give you the chance to lead a major change initiative with the support of a structured learning community including an academic mentor and/or peer.
Hear from doctors from the Executive Master's in Medical Leadership
Participant profile
Unlike most management degrees in healthcare, our programme has been designed specifically for doctors. Participants will include: medical directors, associate directors, clinical directors and clinical leads; consultants and general practitioners; senior clinical academics and clinician scientists; other senior medical professionals with appropriate experience; senior doctors in training with extensive clinical experience.
Next steps
There is growing recognition among policy-makers and managers in the UK and around the world that nurturing effective medical leaders is critical. We are excited to offer a programme that helps address this need – and look forward to playing our part in helping you improve healthcare organisations and systems, and ultimately peoples’ health and lives.
For more information please contact Ruth Velenski by email.
Faculty and Team biographies
Amanda Goodall
Amanda Goodall is Professor of Leadership in Bayes’ Faculty of Management. Amanda is the Founder and Course Director for the EMML. She teaches on Personal Leadership Development and Expert Leadership and her research can be found on her website.
Ruth Velenski
Ruth is Head of Corporate Development within the Business School and is responsible for developing and managing corporate sponsorships and corporate partnerships between the Business School and a range of companies.
Previously she was Head of Campaigns with responsibility for identifying, designing and implementing fundraising initiatives to support key academic centres across the business school.
Since 2017 Ruth has been playing a significant role in helping to promote and attract doctors to the Executive Master’s in Medical Leadership (EMML) from across both the NHS and Private Health Care sectors and has established a number of significant partnerships in this respect.
Natasha Maw
Natasha is Programme Director of Leadership Development and Coaching and teaches the Personal Leadership Development module that underpins the degree. She works with students in her capacity as lead executive coach and action learning facilitator. Her background is in programme making at the BBC and she has since worked in many organisations establishing their coaching and leadership development schemes to help experts become leaders. She is a trained mediator and facilitator, qualified as an NLP Master Practitioner and a member of the Association for Coaching.
