Program Overview

Executive Master's in Medical Leadership

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 2025 Intake.
• Onboarding application: Summer 2025 (subject to approval)
• Closing deadline: Summer 2025 (subject to approval)
• Self-Funding applicants (non-levy route): Summer 2025
• 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.

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.

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

2025/26 Academic timetable (these dates are provisional and will be fully confirmed soon).

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. Strategic Management of Health Care Organisations*
  • 8. Leading Innovation in Healthcare*
• Term 2: January - April
  • 9. Work Based Leadership Impact Project (Part 2)*
  • 10. Marketing and Machine Learning*
• 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.*

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.

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.

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.

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.