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Year 2: Experiential Courses

Provides an understanding of how operations management concepts and tools can produce better quality, lower costs, and improve revenue. Examines how to improve productivity, maximize asset utilization, reduce waiting lines, shorten throughput times, and enhance the overall customer experience. Explores quality management concepts and tools with a focus on healthcare. Includes additional topics such as nurse scheduling, managing patient flows across units and the continuum of care, impact of facility design on patient and caregiver satisfaction, and managing emergency rooms and surgical suites. Identifies transferrable practices from other industries for the redesign of healthcare.

By improving operational processes, healthcare organizations can improve both the quality and efficiency of care delivery. In this course, physicians select and complete a process improvement project in their own organization, applying the tools and procedures learned. Prepares students for the American Society for Quality (ASQ) Green Belt Exam.

As you hone your leadership skills and business knowledge, you will be partnered with an executive coach, who will work with you to meet your professional goals. You meet with your executive coach regularly in the second year of the program, which culminates in a leadership development plan. Through this process of highly individualized training, you leave the program with the skills and frameworks to orient yourself as a change agent for your organization, whether you are running a private practice, working in a group practice, or employed by an integrated healthcare delivery system.

Healthcare is the largest and most heavily regulated sector of the U.S. economy. Physician leaders must understand how public policies are developed and how to navigate the regulatory environment. Enables physicians to discuss healthcare policy with policy makers and regulators in Washington, D.C. Allows physicians to gain a deeper understanding of the regulatory process and how this process can be improved through direct interactions with policy makers.

Explores the tools for strategic management and the complexities involved in determining long-term strategies. Examines the dynamics of the competitive environment and how the pace and direction of industry change are influenced by resources, capabilities, and competitive interaction of rivals. Learn strategic analysis methodologies and frameworks to evaluate and change organizational capabilities, the same tools used by top management teams of today's leading organizations. Applies strategic management tools to the healthcare industry, including hospitals, health systems, pharmaceuticals, medical devices, biotechnology, information technology, and health services.

Today's healthcare environment forces physician leaders to use every tool at their disposal to create and maintain an effective and adaptable organization. A major source of effectiveness and adaptability is leaders’ ability to facilitate meetings, to assess strategic decision-making, and to coach others. This course addresses these skills and explores how to drive change from within an organization.

As you hone your leadership skills and business knowledge, you will be partnered with an executive coach, who will work with you to meet your professional goals. You meet with your executive coach regularly in the second year of the program, which culminates in a leadership development plan. Through this process of highly individualized training, you leave the program with the skills and frameworks to orient yourself as a change agent for your organization, whether you are running a private practice, working in a group practice, or employed by an integrated healthcare delivery system.

Today's global economy demands leaders with an international perspective, and healthcare is no exception. In this elective course, physicians examine international healthcare delivery models, learn from other healthcare systems, and study opportunities for healthcare companies abroad. The course includes a 9-day international trip.

This course is the capstone to your MBA curriculum and is a multi-disciplinary business and consulting project involving the integration of all components of the integrated core courses. All faculty in the integrated core participate as a team in assisting students to complete an intensive, immersive corporate consulting project – applying all that you have learned in the program. You will work with national healthcare companies to solve executive-level problems and offer consulting expertise, strategy opportunities, and process improvement recommendations.

 

Medical technologies, including biopharmaceutical compounds, medical devices, diagnostics, and data analytic processes, are a critical pillar in the healthcare system. Technology advances have led to increases in the efficiency of healthcare delivery along with improved patient outcomes. The pace at which these advances are occurring continues to accelerate and individuals supporting medical technology development require a broad understanding of the healthcare field to be successful. This course explores the critical importance of the medical products industry in supporting the delivery of care and the latest technological innovations.

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