The Administrative Practicum occurs during quarters two and three at your healthcare organization. Working with an executive mentor, you will assess the organization’s culture in regard to safety, interprofessional teamwork, and adequacy of data for key health care indicators to execute your evidence-based project initiated in your application.
- Instructor: MARY DICKOW
- Instructor: Joan Grebe
- Instructor: Terry
Leaders in healthcare, the academy and policy-makers have called for a redesign of the US healthcare system to achieve high-quality and safe provision of care. The course will include an overview of key reports, proposals for change, and how interprofessional teams can create and maintain a climate of learning. The concepts of high reliability, equitable healthcare, and just culture will be examined and applied to case studies and health organizations.
- Instructor: Jarmin Yeh
This web-based course examines key tenets of healthcare policy including regulation and licensure, education and deployment of the health workforce, public health systems, the legislative process and health legislation such as the Affordable Care Act, and basics about state and federal health programs including Medicare and Medicaid. Students will explore the environment outside an organization’s vertical structure and examine supports and barriers to initiating structural change.
- Instructor: Beth Mertz
This foundation course presents an overview of the healthcare financial landscape, players, mechanics, and characteristics of reform. The course introduces core concepts of financial management including balance sheets, income statements, and cash flow streams and the managerial accounting building blocks of budgeting and planning. Students will participate in interactive and targeted assignments and case studies to translate financial concepts into tangible tools to assess, manage, and improve healthcare operations.
- Instructor: Melek Nasr Totah
This foundation course introduces students to core concepts and principles of leadership, teamwork, change management, creativity and innovation. Using results from standardized assessment inventories, students will participate in tailored activities to strengthen their self-knowledge and skill acquisition for leadership development and professional advancement. Students will also engage in interprofessional group work and structured sessions to initiate their evidence-based capstone project. Attendance at a 3-day on-campus intensive will occur at the end of the quarter. Preparation for the on-campus intensive includes online pre-work activities throughout the quarter.
- Instructor: Lucy Fisher
- Instructor: Jason Flatt
- Instructor: Mary Louise Fleming
- Instructor: Joan Grebe
This interprofessional course focuses on the foundations, components, and translation of research essential to advance innovation in health systems to improve evidence-based healthcare. This is a highly self-directed course that provides you with a structured opportunity to identify a healthcare topic of interest, select research articles on that topic, and use the scientific method to appraise scientific evidence. These learning activities will form the basis for your capstone project, a requirement for degree completion.
- Instructor: Jason Flatt
Online program information and orientation for MS-HAIL.
- Instructor: Lucy Fisher