Liza Heise (M. Sc.)
Liza Heise (M. Sc.)
Academic appointment: Project manager
Employer: Evangelical Hospital Foundation Oldenburg
Activity: Planning, coordinating, harmonising, documenting, presenting
What I love about my current job: What I like most about my job is the variety. Every project I supervise is different and you have to familiarise yourself with something new every time, which means the work is never monotonous. Ideally, you can also see the impact of your own work. Processes change, become safer, more efficient, digitalisation becomes more present or sources of error are reduced. The project team works together to develop the next steps and derive new courses of action.
Training and studies: Bachelor of Arts in Social Sciences, Master of Science in Health Services Research
How did my Master's programme prepare me for my current job? My Master's programme in Health Services Research prepared me less for a specific specialist task and more for structured work in complex health care systems. During my studies, I learnt not to view the healthcare system in isolation, but rather as an interplay of many actors, processes and framework conditions. The Master's degree programme in Health Services Research also teaches a strong methodological approach. I use these methods in project management, for example in the assessment of target and actual states, evaluations and surveys as well as their analyses. Critical handling of data and studies was also central to my studies. This is transferred to the clean documentation of project statuses, the visualisation of comprehensible decision-making processes and the structured processing of reports and presentations.
This is why I recommend the Master's in Health Services Research: I recommend the Master's in Health Services Research because it provides a sound understanding of the structures, players and processes in the healthcare system and thus combines professional and methodological expertise. Above all, the programme trains systemic and analytical thinking, which helps to grasp complex healthcare contexts, define problems precisely and make decisions on a comprehensible basis. Particularly valuable is the methodological training, which promotes the critical handling of data, studies and evidence and enables an objective, reflective evaluation of measures.