This course educates healthcare leaders about the built environment’s impacts on access, affordability, quality, and safety of healthcare delivery. This on-line class covers the full continuum of skills needed to impact environmental change from seeing, to determining, to influencing, to innovating. The curriculum progresses from basic spatial concepts to complex ideas, with the end-goal being the ability to answer the questions: How can I make this a better place? What change needs to happen?
- Instructor: Sharon Woodworth
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: Lucy Fisher
- Instructor: Jason Flatt
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: MARY DICKOW
- Instructor: Joan Grebe
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: Helen Archer-Duste
This course will introduce students to selected economic concepts and focus on fundamental concepts and elements of healthcare finance and managerial accounting for non-financial managers/leaders. Knowledge and skill developed in this course is intended to support decisions that participants are asked to make in roles their leadership roles in healthcare organizations.
- Instructor: Nachu Amah
- Instructor: Joanne Spetz
- Instructor: Jarmin Yeh