Healthcare MBA

Healthcare MBA

Learning Goals & Objectives

LG1: Systems

Healthcare MBA graduates will understand the complex healthcare system across critical domains (social, economic, political, regulatory, etc.) and scales (micro to macro) that influence healthcare policy and operations and apply this understanding to their own professional situation and organization.

Learning Objectives:

1. Relevant and specific stakeholders:  Students will identify relevant and specific stakeholders in the healthcare system, articulate their stakes, and illustrate how those stakeholders operate in a mutually influencing system.
2. Providing stakeholder value:  Students will analyze the potential short- and long-term implications (intended and unintended) that healthcare policy, finance, and operations decisions have on providing value from multiple stakeholders’ (especially patients’) points of view.
3. Translation to specific organizational, business, and quality issues:  Students will be able to translate and apply their understanding of the complex healthcare system to address specific healthcare organizational, business, and quality issues faced by stakeholders in the healthcare system.

LG2: Analysis and Decision Making

Healthcare MBA graduates will analyze complex and ambiguous issues in healthcare and reason toward solutions that are innovative in healthcare contexts.

Learning Objectives:

1. Define problem:  Students will craft meaningful and actionable problem statements with strong consideration towards diverse stakeholders.
2. Use and analysis of evidence:  Students will systematically gather and methodically analyze primary and secondary evidence most relevant to the situation.
3. Potential solutions:  Students will thoughtfully design and rigorously evaluate potential solutions.
4. Decision making:  Students will propose solutions that address the needs of diverse stakeholders and are sensitive to contextual factors.

LG3: Leadership

Healthcare MBA graduates will accurately name their own emotional state, understand their impact on others, and act to promote a strength-based, appreciative climate.

Learning Objectives:

1. Emotional self-reflection:  Students will meaningfully reflect on their own emotions and articulate how they impact others.
2. Capabilities and motivations:  Students will reflect on their own strengths, weaknesses, drives, values, and goals.
3. Adaptation:  Students will skillfully redirect disruptive emotions and impulses, and effectively adapt to changing circumstances.
4. Professional relationships:  Students will foster professional relationships with a strength-based, appreciative perspective.

LG4: Communication

Healthcare MBA graduates will communicate in a manner that appropriately and thoughtfully informs, influences, and inspires diverse stakeholders.

Learning Objectives:

1. Context, purpose, and audience:  Students will demonstrate a thorough consideration of context, purpose and audience in the communication.
2. Inquiry:  Students will demonstrate evidence of inquiry throughout the communication.
3. Clear, concise, and convincing presentation of message:  Students will present a central message in a clear, concise and convincing manner.
4. Articulation of complex information:  Students will skillfully articulate complex information in a manner that allows the message to be understood by diverse stakeholders.