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The MBA Health Care Management is designed
to provide students with the business management
skills needed to manage successfully in today's
health care delivery systems. The MBA Health
Care Management program emphasizes the identification,
analysis, and solution of complex management
problems with a foundation of health care concepts
and decision models that will support the variety
of management roles that can be seen in today's
health care environment. The MBA Health Care
Management specialization is based upon courses
in health care organizations, health care finance,
quality and data base management, health care
infrastructure, and health care strategic management.
The MBA Health Care Management develops students
for the role managers play in defining business
problems, assessing information, considering
alternatives, and choosing the best solution.
Imagine the manager as the hub of a wheel.
From the hub radiate spokes, each representing
a specific discipline, such as finance, law,
marketing, operations, information systems,
etc. Each of these "spokes" generates inputs
for the manager to assess and incorporate into
the decision-making process. The manager is
a critical user of these inputs in making the
decision. Although generally not the original
producer of the information, the manager must
be able to assess the validity and reliability
of the information in building a business case
for the decision.
To prepare students for the decision-making
role, the MBA Health Care Management has been
designed to introduce the theory or principles
that frame a wide range of problems or issues
in each of the courses. The most current techniques
or tools are applied to these theories to allow
students to practice making decisions to solve
a wide range of problems.
The MBA Health Care Management consists of
46 credit hours. Thirty-one credit hours constitute
the core curriculum and 15 additional credit
hours complete the MBA Health Care Management.
The core begins with one-credit, three-week,
Managerial Communication course designed to
build strategies for success in the MBA Health
Care Management. It is a prerequisite to all
the courses that follow. The remainder of the
core consists of 10, three-credit courses,
which all student who receive an MBA Health
Care Management from University of Phoenix
must complete. Those students in the MBA Health
Care Management will complete five additional
prescribed courses to hone their skills in
health care management.
Each University of Phoenix MBA Health Care
Management student will create and maintain
an electronic portfolio reflecting the student's
achievements throughout the MBA Health Care
Management program. It will include assignments
from each course, typically individual assignments,
as well as other outcomes the student may wish
to add. These assignments will demonstrate
the student's ability to solve business problems
at the graduate level and serve as a partial
catalog of the skills the student has mastered.
Students who enter the MBA Health Care Management
program with an undergraduate degree that is
not in business will be required to complete
web-based material (introduced during the Managerial
Communication course) covering the fields of
Accounting, Finance, Statistics, and Economics.
These students must complete the web-based
material and the included self-assessments
for each course prior to taking the Accounting,
Finance, Statistics, and Economics courses
in the core. The web-based material will familiarize
the students with the terms and concepts covered
in a foundational course in that subject. That
foundational knowledge will be presumed by
the faculty members who teach the core courses.
The web-based material may also serve as a
useful review for students who have studied
these subjects as undergraduates, but would
benefit from a refresher.
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