Mohammad Musleh

I’m from a biomedical engineering background, and I’ve been working in medical devices and healthcare technology for over 20 years.

I already had undertaken graduate studies, learning about business strategy and acumen, but about three years ago I started to work in healthcare IT and information systems. This was around the time when artificial intelligence was growing digital healthcare, and I took some courses around the technical aspects, but I was missing a crucial skill: how to manage as a leader and bring about change in a business.

This led me to RCSI’s Professional Diploma in Leading Digital Health Transformation. We looked at how to work with and manage teams, how digital transformation works inside the healthcare system and how to implement it, and all the technical aspects, abbreviations and terminology that we need to know.

We learned how to build a business case for change and how to work with top management, leadership and executive teams.

The course, which was online but with live sessions, was structured and comprehensive, running over nine months. I invested about six to eight hours a week in reading, studying, case studies, lectures and assignments.

The students came from Ireland, the Middle East and elsewhere, and included a mix of nurses and healthcare technicians.

My assignments helped me to learn, step-by-step, how to implement a new AI solution in the hospital, and how to talk with clinical and IT teams. I came away with the knowledge, power and confidence to talk with doctors, technicians and healthcare providers. I now have the skills to lead in AI solutions, implement digital processes or, indeed, deploy any digital transformation.

I would really recommend the course. I loved the faculty and the team, and always found them both flexible, open to new ideas and keen for feedback.

I’m now transitioning to a new job and, with the management and leadership skills I have acquired, I will be moving into the fields of machine learning and generative AI within healthcare.