UMIO and EHA start training programme for future leaders in cardiovascular medicine

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UMIO and the European Heart Academy (EHA) have joined forces in developing a training programme for future leaders in cardiovascular medicine. The programme will start in April 2022.

Certificate of Advanced Studies in Cardiovascular Management and Leadership

The Certificate of Advanced Studies in Cardiovascular Management and Leadership (CAS-Leadership) will provide healthcare practitioners with the skills required to lead and manage the healthcare systems of the future. In contrast to the many generic leadership courses on offer across Europe, CAS-Leadership combines the core principles of effective leadership with instruction in essential modern skills such as hospital management, digital transformation, and dealing with complex systems. This leadership course is a transversal programme tailor-made for mid-career healthcare professionals with an interest in cardiology who want to become managers and leaders with broad societal and economic perspectives.

This programme is organised in partnership with the European Heart Academy; an organisation that trains the future leaders in cardiovascular medicine. In collaboration with selected excellent universities, the academy provides the ultimate cardiovascular degrees.

Complexity in healthcare

The healthcare sector is complex in the sense that many different stakeholders interact in a rapidly changing context. For example, patients are more and more empowered through easier access to information on health, doctors and nurses need responses to advances in new technologies that might fundamentally change how they prevent, diagnose and cure diseases, insurance companies influence procedures through how they finance and regulatory bodies shape what is possible and what is not. To be a leader in this context requires the ability to recognise diverse stakeholders, spot emerging new realities and navigate the often paradoxical impact these developments have on the organisation. This programme equips participants with exactly that.

It is unique because it not only provides participants with different evidence-based perspectives on management and leadership in this context but also helps participants translate these to their own personal leader role. In that way, the knowledge and experience gained becomes immediately actionable in their own work context.”

Prof. dr. Mariëlle Heijltjes – Executive Director UMIO & Professor of Managerial Behaviour

Kick-off Brightlands AI Academy in Venlo

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Artificial Intelligence (AI) is creating more and more impact on our daily lives. Image recognition and interpretation, production robots, personalised suggestions on Netflix and self-driving cars are all AI examples. AI makes processes smarter and more autonomous. The need for skilled AI employees is massive, and it brings a major challenge along: the war on AI talent. Brightlands AI Academy offers a solution to this challenge by educating ‘change leaders’ to implement smart, data-driven innovations that will make their organisation future-proof.

Sturdy programme

A programme focussing on AI in this region has been initiated by entrepreneurs: IXT Data- and Robotics Professionals and Genzai. They found the perfect partners in Brightlands, connected to AI-hub Brightlands, Fontys Venlo and UMIO | Maastricht University. Various modules will be offered, during twelve full-time course days, which are aligned with practice: from ideation to business case and applicable AI methods and technics. Participants and employers will be connected, which will lead to synergies to create and develop new AI opportunities.

Candidate profile

Brightlands AI Academy’s programme focuses on HBO and WO educated professionals with an inquisitive, creative and entrepreneurial mindset; strongly communicators who want to make a difference within their organisation by using data to innovate on processes and business models. Preferably, participants have a science education background including mathematics, business informatics, information management, econometrics, computer science, statistics and physics. The first academy cohort will start in October, with a maximum of 20 participants.

Workshops

Brightlands AI Academy organises three introductory workshops, the first of which took place on June 23. Potential participants and employers can familiarise themselves with the content of the twelve-day programme. There is also the possibility to think about a possible AI user case within the organisation during a short ideation session.

More information about Brightlands AI Academy and related workshops on www.brightlandsaicademy.com.

UMIO designs and provides leadership training of DAS-CAM programme

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One of the key needs identified by the European Society of Cardiology is the training of future leaders in arrhythmia management and research. For this purpose, the educational programme ‘Diploma of Advanced Studies in Cardiac Arrhythmia Management’ (DAS-CAM) has been established. UMIO designs and facilitates the Leadership Development Trajectory that is part of several modules of this two-year programme. At the end of January, the participants gathered in Brussels for module 5 on ventricular tachycardia.

The DAS-CAM programme is a joint collaboration between Maastricht University Medical Center (MUMC+), European Heart Academy (EHA) and the European Heart Rhythm Association (EHRA). This unique course trains future leaders in arrhythmology from all over the world to deliver state-of the-art cardiovascular services.

Excel as a leader

In addition to substantive training in cardiac arrhythmia management, the cardiologists and electrophysiologists also learn how to excel in a managerial position. This is done through a Leadership Development Trajectory designed by UMIO and facilitated by Prof. Dr. Marielle Heijltjes, Prof. Dr. Piet Eichholtz, Martin Lammers, Prof. Dr. Jan Cobbenhagen, Prof. Dr. Simon de Jong and former colleagues of SBE, Prof. Dr. Hein Schreuder and Prof. Dr. Anneloes Raes.

At the end of January, the module on ventricular tachycardia took place in Brussels. On behalf of UMIO, Prof. Dr. Simon de Jong and Prof. Dr. Anneloes Raes provided the leadership sessions of this module.

The current group of 32 participants is the second batch since the start of the DAS-CAM programme. Their first module took place in February 2019 and their eighth and last module will take place in October this year.

More information

Do you want to know more about the DAS-CAM programme? Then go to the DAS-CAM page on this website.