This healthcare management concentration is an interdisciplinary program that combines health sciences and management courses to prepare students for a business career in the twenty-first-century healthcare industry. This concentration enhances a major in Health Sciences or a major in Management, but it is open to students from any major. Students should consult their advisors about how enrolling in this concentration complements their course of study and prepares them to achieve their academic and professional goals.
Learning Objectives
- Healthcare Systems: Describe the roles of healthcare systems, public policy, and governments in influencing public and private health systems within the U.S. and other countries.
- Analysis and Decision Making: Apply an ethical framework to legally, systematically, and methodologically analyze organizational dilemmas to make recommendations that improve outcomes.
- Leadership: Identify stakeholders and their strengths and perspectives to build interagency relationships using organizational frameworks.
- Communication: Demonstrate transparent information sharing with relevant justification and analysis within the appropriate context, purpose, and audience to maintain the healthcare organization’s quality and efficiency standards.
Total Credits
24