Faculty of Medicine

Social Medicine and Health Management

Become the specialist who leads and optimizes the healthcare system. At UVVG, the training combines biomedical management theory with practice in real healthcare units—small groups, professors with experience in the system, direct relationship with each master’s student.

Do you have questions? Write to us at admitere@uvvg.ro or call 0748 988 884

Type of studies

Master’s degree

Form of education

Full-time

Field

Medicine

Location

Arad

Language of instruction

Romanian

Duration

3 semesters

90 ECTS credits

Places in the field

40

Annual tuition fee

6,000 lei

Why choose to study Social Medicine and Health Management?

The Master’s degree in Social Medicine and Health Management prepares you to lead with vision and responsibility. You learn to manage healthcare units, coordinate multidisciplinary teams, design public health strategies, and evaluate the efficiency of the healthcare system. You do not just study management theories. You apply them immediately, in real contexts from the public and private health sectors.

The curriculum structure ensures interdisciplinary theoretical and practical training, through the comprehensive use of health management concepts and methodologies. The emphasis falls equally on specialized knowledge and the development of practical skills—with direct activity in healthcare units, public health directorates, and health insurance houses.

Graduation opens access to leadership positions in the healthcare system, as well as to the medical corporate environment, NGOs, research institutions, and public authorities—anywhere a specialist who knows how to organize and increase the efficiency of care services is needed.

The program is addressed to graduates from medicine, pharmacy, medical assistance, dentistry, nutrition-dietetics, legal sciences, public administration, and economics—any professional who wants to contribute to improving the healthcare system from a leadership position.

The Master’s degree in Health Services Management prepares you to lead—not just to work in the system. You learn to manage healthcare units, coordinate multidisciplinary teams, design public health strategies, and evaluate the efficiency of the healthcare system. You do not just study management theories. You apply them immediately, in real contexts from the public and private health sectors.

Why choose to study this specialization at UVVG?

  • Small groups—direct relationship with each faculty member, not anonymous courses with dozens of master’s students

  • Practice in public and private healthcare units in Arad—you apply what you learn immediately

  • ARACIS accredited program—diploma recognized in the national health and education system

  • Complete training: health management, social medicine, healthcare system financing, health legislation

  • Open to graduates from related fields: medicine, pharmacy, law, economics, medical assistance

  • Access to Erasmus+ mobility—exchange of experience with partner European universities

  • Interdisciplinary approach—the program connects management with the clinical and administrative realities of the healthcare system

Where you can work after graduation

Graduates of the program can be employed or advance to leadership positions in all types of units in the healthcare system, as well as in public, private, and nonprofit organizations that manage medical services or public health programs.

  • Public healthcare units

  • Public Health Directorates

  • Health Insurance House

  • National Health Programs

  • Private healthcare units

  • Health consulting services

  • Foundations and non-governmental organizations

  • Medical professional training centers

  • Educational and research institutions

  • Community health programs

  • Public regulatory authorities

  • Doctorate in Medicine / Public Health

The mission of the master’s program in Social Medicine and Health Management consists in training specialists in the field of health services management. The specialist in health services management is based on post-university professional training, through the accumulation of theoretical knowledge and practical skills to coordinate activities at the level of the healthcare system.

  • Comprehensive use of health management concepts and methodologies to solve theoretical and practical problems within the system

  • Systematic approach to available resources, technological developments, and labor market trends in healthcare

  • Evaluation, interpretation, and application of scientific studies, followed by communication of results to the population or decision-makers

  • Knowledge of funding sources and mechanisms for various types of healthcare service providers

  • Design of healthcare strategies and development of health promotion projects at regional and national levels

  • Ability to act independently and creatively in diverse socio-professional contexts, including in leadership roles for professional groups

Curriculum

The complete structure of the programme by year and semester

Course syllabi

Objectives, content and bibliography for each course

Timetable

Faculty consultation schedule for individual meetings

Faculty

List of professors and lecturers teaching in the programme

Be the voice that transforms the medical system.

Master’s degree places are limited. Submit your application and take the first step toward a career in health services management.

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Do you have questions? Write to us at admitere@uvvg.ro or call 0748 988 884