Year/Quarter: 20254
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Health Management Program Seminar
Covers topics in team dynamics, group leadership, professional development/career pathways, and other specialized areas of leadership in healthcare administration.
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Public Health Practice
Students integrate and apply knowledge of health determinants and public health systems, analytic skills, and evidence-based approaches to real world public health problem solving. Helps develop system thinking skills and an understanding of the interrelationships between public health infrastructure, generation and evaluation of public health evidence, public health policy, leadership, management, communication and community engagement.…
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Strategic Management of Healthcare Organizations
Management of goals, strategy, and structure in healthcare organizations. Design of external relationships and internal structures., strategy-formulation, decision-making, and change. Integration of professional, social, and organizational values. Theory, student and practitioner experience, and case studies used to enhance repertoire of management approaches and skills. Prerequisite: HSERV 511 and HSMGMT 560 or equivalent.
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Informatics in Healthcare Management
Medical informatics concerns the representation, organization, and manipulation of biomedical information and knowledge. Exposes students to a high-level understanding of informatics and its healthcare applications. Discussion of successes and failures in implementing information technology focuses on gaining leadership and management knowledge that embraces informatics.
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Quality Process Management
Provides a thorough understanding of the main concepts of operations management with a focus on total quality management techniques, along with key integrative frameworks that provide the foundation for successful applications of these approaches, as applied to healthcare organizations.
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Quantitative Methods
Concentrates on fundamental concepts of statistics and their application to healthcare management. Approaches statistics from two different perspectives that benefit leaders in healthcare: that of biostatistics and evidence based medicine, and that of management statistics for process improvement.
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Capital Planning
Emphasizes preparing clinical executives for managerial and leadership in healthcare organizations. Key concepts include capital cycle, creditworthiness, financial planning, cost of capital, capital structure, and capital allocation.
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Accounting for Health Service Managers
Emphasis on preparing graduate students for management and leadership roles in their healthcare organizations. Covers financial accounting including the accounting equation, journal entries, and processes of accounting.
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Select Topics
By arrangement, students and faculty members develop a program of reading and conference appropriate to the selected topic. Topic chosen is within the special competence of the participating faculty member, in the area of health services management.
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Implementing Public Health Interventions
Students learn about the role of theory, evidence, community engagement, and ethics in health promotion intervention design, implementation, and evaluation. Focuses on identifying population needs, assets and capacities to inform intervention design; implementation of interventions and intervention strategies across the socio-ecological framework; and monitoring intervention implementation and evaluating intervention outcomes. Prerequisite: PHI 511; PHI 512;…