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Policy, Population, and Innovation/Economic Aspects of Healthcare Administration

These two courses, taken simultaneously, are highly integrated, combining projects and lectures to show the connections between economic theory, health care policy, and innovation.  Emphasis is on innovation and creative approaches to current health challenges.  Students participate in “Tiger Tank”, a project that challenges students to use design thinking, creative problem solving, and an entrepreneurial mindset, culminating in a pitch competition where groups pitch their solution to a problem to external judges.

Capstone Seminar

This course serves as a bridge between the academic setting and the residency experience. Each student participates in two separate consulting groups to develop and deliver real-world projects to varied health care organizations.  Working directly with these organizations, student teams complete a project designed in collaboration with a health care organization.  Final presentations are delivered to the sponsoring executives at the client site.

Professional Development, Leadership, and Conflict Management

This is a two-course sequence in leadership development. The first course focuses on “leading yourself” with an emphasis on professional development, emotional intelligence, and crucial conversations.  The second course focuses on “leading others”.  The two-course sequence is designed to give students the tools to become highly effective leaders.

Health Care Performance Improvement

Introduces the fundamentals of guiding and sustaining health care organizational performance improvement, including leadership, culture, employee onboarding and engagement, customer relationship management, and contemporary performance improvement concepts, tools, and techniques.

Health Care Strategic Planning and Marketing

An analysis of the strategic planning and marketing processes used by health care managers. Students examine how these models and methodologies apply to patients, physicians, and managed care buyers as separate markets for health care services.

Clinical Decision Making

Students gain an understanding of the process, priorities, motivations, strengths, and limitations of clinical decision-making while exploring the relationship between and among clinicians rendering patient care.