Healthcare Management, Advanced Certificate
Students may begin this 12-credit certificate in the fall, spring or summer terms. The required courses and suggested sequence are as follows:
Code | Title | Credits |
---|---|---|
MGMT 6040 | High Performance Management | 3 |
HCLM 6075 | Managing Healthcare Systems | 3 |
HCLM 6080 | Health Policy & Management | 3 |
HCLM 7005 | Strategic Corporate Communication & Inter-professional Collaboration | 3 |
Total Credits | 12 |
Upon successful completion of this program, students should be able to:
- Formulate healthcare system goals and the components
- Understand the distribution of healthcare resources and their relationship to delivery of care
- Analyze and understand various leadership characteristics and strategies
- Apply strategies and techniques of organizational goal development, deployment and management of resources, and leadership of health care teams to professional experiences
- Analyze the concepts of professional accountability, patients' rights, and code of conduct and relate these concepts to ethical challenges faced by students in their professional settings
- Identify key trends external to the healthcare field that may influence healthcare management
- Consider the roles and relationships among various organizational functions
- Apply business skills through the translation of strategic visions into operational plans for healthcare organizations
- Display critical thinking in any capacity that requires decision making
- Analyze barriers to and strategies for effective communication in leadership roles in the healthcare industry