Medical Leadership

Ethics and Justice in Health Care Management

This course addresses the moral, ethical, and legal environment of health care services by evaluating implications of policy-decisions from a justice perspective within clinical and research settings. Key issues discussed include patient autonomy, privacy, quality control, outcome disparity, regulatory compliance, and institutional biases that contribute to health inequities while applying ethical leadership principles to facilitate organizational change.

Organizational Behavior in Health Care Management

Using concepts and models from social psychology, communications, and organization theory, the course examines communication, decision-making, motivation, commitment, and conduct in health care organizations, primarily at the individual and group level. Students will examine how attitudes, values, beliefs, and personalities affect organizational conduct and how to build and manage effective teams in complex organizations.

Public Health Perspectives and Issues

This course introduces healthcare leaders to the key public health principles of promoting wellness and preventing injury, illness, and death in communities and populations. Learning in the course integrates health systems and community based services while incorporating evidence-based research in epidemiology, social determinants of health, and public health policy that examine historical and current inequities that influence community health needs at local, national, and global levels.

Financial Administration in Health Care Enterprises

This broad disciplinary course evaluates the broad topics of the financial structure of health care enterprises from operating and capital perspectives. Its purpose is to help leaders understand the business model of healthcare enterprises for effective financial decision-making. As a business methods course, it uses approaches from operations management, managerial finance, and accounting. Central issues in the course are the role of third-party payers, analysis of cash flow, need for capital, and financial sustainability.