This course is designed to provide a broad overview of management topics relevant to effective health systems operations. In this course, you will develop an in-depth understanding of the range of and application of management principles. To achieve this outcome, course activities will include text/literature readings, case studies, individual and group activities and assignments, and on-line discussion with faculty and peers.
- Instructor: Mia Basic
- Instructor: J Michael Lane
The administrative practicum provides students with opportunities to apply and evaluate theories, concepts, and skills in the work setting under the supervision of a mentor.
- Instructor: Darren Beatty
- Instructor: MARY DICKOW
- Instructor: Mike Taigman
Healthcare, as an industry, encompasses a multitude of interrelated systems from pragmatic business systems to the complex system of human interactions. This course educates healthcare leaders about one, often overlooked system - the built environment. As a future leader in the healthcare industry, you will be challenged to deal with the environment. This online class exposes you to how the built environment impacts access, affordability, quality, and safety of healthcare delivery and prepares you to improve the space around you. Ultimately, Leadership: Environmental Systems is about how buildings affect lives—if one changes a space for the better, one will change a life for the better.
- Instructor: Sharon Woodworth
This course builds on MHA200B to provide a deeper understanding of health care economics, policy, and decision-making. The course will explore the production of health, incentives faced by health care organizations, the pricing of health insurance, health care technology and pharmaceutical development, ownership structures of health care organizations, health care in the context of the broader economy, and health care costs. The link between the course content and the role of the healthcare leader in increasing the value of health care services will be emphasized, as will how the organization and financing of the health system impacts management, strategy, and innovation.
- Instructor: Ryan Edwards
In this culminating on-campus course, students will demonstrate core program competencies through the integration and application of leadership, social, economic and change management theories underpinning interprofessional practice. Having advanced to candidacy for conferral of the Master of Science degree, students will present their evidence-based capstone project in four formats: scholarly papers, advocacy discussion, podium and poster presentations.
- Instructor: Kathryn Wise
Leading teams through transitions requires a solid understanding of the evolution of leadership in healthcare and the ability to apply principles of change management in complex situations. Using key organizational, leadership and change theories, students will consider the role of leadership in relationship to societal trends. Additionally, students will critically analyze leadership behaviors and their effect on organizational and staff performance and system outcomes.
- Instructor: Jarmin Yeh