In the course of time, INMSS has organized master courses, certificates, continuing medical education courses, practical internships.

The main thematic areas covered by the courses are:

• Hospital management;
• Management of Health and Social Services (leadership, strategic management, decision making, power and authority – delegation of authority, change management, time management, organisational behaviour, quality management, mechanisms and techniques for quality assurance and improvement);
• Human Resources Management (human resources planning, recruitment, selection and development of personnel, communication, motivation, teamwork, conflict management, negotiation, career development, etc.);
• Health Economics and Financial Management (basic concepts of microeconomics, health care market, macro-economics, financial flows for social and health care, payment mechanisms for providers, economic evaluation of social and health services, financial management and management);
• Legislation and Ethics (Social and health legislation, ethical norms and values, ethical decisions at the beginning and end of life, patient-doctor relationship, research on human subjects and organ transplantation);
• Epidemiology (Basic elements in Epidemiology, Bao-statistics, demography, advanced epidemiology etc.);
• Health Promotion and Health Education;
• Public Health Services (health and social needs assessment, health and social care systems, health systems reform);
• Health and Social Services Research and Evaluation (health and social services research methodology – quantitative and qualitative, determinism and health and social services, research project planning);
• Management of Public Health Programmes (planning, monitoring and evaluation);
• Social Policies and Health Policies (social policy models, well-being, analysis of health systems and policies, social health insurance, main actors involved in social and health policies).