LOG782 Production Planning and Improvement Methods in Healthcare (Spring 2027)

After completing the course, the student is expected to have acquired the following:

Knowledge:

• Advanced knowledge of theories, tools and techniques/methods used in production planning and improvement work.
• Advanced knowledge of factors that inhibit and promote process performance in a service system.
• Advanced knowledge of factors that contribute to variation in processes and system performance.

Thorough understanding of improvement theories and models, and the ability to apply these for system improvement.

• Can apply knowledge within production planning and improvement methods to new areas in the health care sector.

Skills

• Analyse various models for production planning and improvement from research and other literature, and reason about which models should be applied in different situations.
• Analyse existing theories, methods and interpretations within production planning and work independently with practical and theoretical problem solving.
• Apply, analyse and combine different methods and theories within production planning in order to provide recommendations for solutions to complex problems in the health care sector.
• Carry out an independent, limited research or development project under supervision and in accordance with current research ethics standards.

General competence

• Can analyse relevant issues within production planning and improvement
• Can apply knowledge and skills in production planning and improvement to new areas in the healthcare sector.
• Can convey extensive independent work and master the terminology in production planning and improvement.
• Can communicate professional issues, analyses and conclusions to both subject specialists and the general public.
• Can contribute to innovation and processes of rethinking.

• Mandatory work requirement: Assignment(s)
• Number of work requirements: 2
• Required work requirements: 2
• Attendance (digital): Required
• Comment: Mandatory work requirements must be approved in order to take the exam. Work requirements must be completed in the same semester as the course is taught and then provide access to the ordinary exam. Approved work requirements also provide access to the first "New and postponed exam" if such an exam is arranged. Work requirements are not valid further in time. This means that students who take the course again must do the mandatory work requirements again.

• Assessment method: Home exam, written submission. In addition, oral presentation and examination.
• Percentage: 100%. Overall assessment written + oral
• Duration: Weeks, oral presentation 20 minutes + examination
• Grouping: Group, 2-4 students per group
• Grading scale: Letter grades