Learning Goal 1: To understand healthcare management functions and associated decision making.
Learning Objectives:
Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of concepts, tools, and decision practices in healthcare:
1.1. Budgeting, financial reporting and control
1.2. Information systems
1.3. Strategy and marketing
1.4. Management and organization
Learning Goal 2: To understand healthcare delivery systems and their change processes.
Learning Objectives:
2.1 HC Delivery Systems - Demonstrate knowledge of the U.S. healthcare industry and its delivery systems, including their innovation and change.
Learning Goal 3: To acquire and practice leadership and managerial skills that will positively affect performance as a healthcare manager.
Learning Objectives:
Demonstrable proficiency in the following skill sets:
3.1. Information Competence – Skill in locating information from published sources, and ability to interpret business reports, data, financial statements, charts, graphs, and tables containing basic business information, as well as typical healthcare industry data.
3.2. Presentation Skills – Skill in preparing and delivering a well-organized, formal presentation to an audience.
3.3. Quantitative Skills – Ability to compute statistics and financial information using software (EXCEL or SPSS) in order to come to decisions on business problems (e.g., through financial analysis and statistics such as correlations, tests of differences between groups, linear regression).
3.4. Teamwork – Skill at completing a complex team task within an allotted time, such as a marketing plan or case analysis paper and presentation.
3.5. Written Communication – Ability to prepare a clear, short business report or memo with minimal grammatical mistakes and few awkward or hard-to-understand sentences.
Learning Goal 4: To integrate ethics and legal considerations with business and industry knowledge.
Learning Objectives:
4.1. Ethics and Corporate Compliance – Knowledge of expectations for professional healthcare ethics; and application of ethical and legal considerations in assignments, cases, and projects.