Student Learning Outcomes
Medical Management CT
N525 VALUE CREATION AND FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE IN HEALTHCARE SYSTEMS (3 cr.) - Winter
- Effectively use Microsoft Excel to import, manipulate, and analyze financial data.
- Measure the financial performance and health of a firm based on its financial statements.
- Identify relevant costs associated with healthcare activities using activity-based costing and other accounting methods.
- Evaluate investment decisions by calculating and using criteria including Net Present Value, Return on Investment, and the incremental costs and benefits.
- Propose investments and/or cost-savings initiatives that generate a positive financial return while preserving or increasing health outcomes.
N526 BUSINESS MANAGEMENT OF PATIENT CARE (3 cr.) - Spring
- Apply behavioral decision making frameworks to anticipate patient behavior and the predictors of patient satisfaction.
- Use operations management principles to understand how decisions are made, tasks are distributed, resources are employed, and services are delivered in a healthcare system.
- Link work flow and bottlenecks in patient care to clinical performance measures and patient satisfaction.
- Evaluate the quality of an operation.
- Identify ways to improve operational processes.
N528 HEALTHCARE SYSTEM STRATEGY AND INNOVATION (3 cr.) - Summer
- Evaluate the difference between clinical care as a social enterprise and clinical care as a for-profit enterprise.
- Apply foundational concepts of business strategy to prioritize patient care focus and goals within a clinical organization.
- Identify the traits of an organizational mindset which fuels innovation that positively transforms the health care industry.
- Comprehend requirements for pursuit and implementation of innovation in health care that reduces cost and improves patient care quality.
N527 LEADING PEOPLE AND MANAGING BEHAVIOR IN HEALTHCARE ORGANIZATIONS (3 cr.) - Fall
- Examine the power of reframing in making sense of organizations and demonstrating true leadership.
- Design organizational structure for activities, units, and groups in healthcare delivery settings so that they are more productive.
- Evaluate and apply best practices in human resources management in healthcare delivery settings.
- Analyze contrasting models of leadership and power dynamics and their application to patient care and management of a healthcare system.
- Examine culture and its role in healthcare organizations.
- Recognize and develop the traits of high-performing teams.
- Gain skills in effective conflict resolution.
X529 CAPSTONE PROJECT (3 CR.) – Taken simultaneously in the Last Quarter
- Analyze ambiguous business situations and identify problems to be
- Apply cross-disciplinary business knowledge and analytical tools to explain business challenges and formulate possible solutions.
- Formulate an actionable plan for implementation of a recommended solution and quantify the predicted impact upon organizational performance.
