The Health Services Management (HSM) program uses an innovative, instructional approach specifically designed to prepare students to manage the business and operational side of healthcare delivery and related industries. This approach emphasizes the development of “soft” (interpersonal) and “hard” (functional) skills necessary to achieve professional success. This is not a writing intensive program. Instead, we focus on preparing students for the real world scenarios facing Health Services Managers. This is accomplished largely through case studies as opposed to traditional term papers, book reports, and annotated bibliographies. More specifically, we require students to produce professional deliverables consistent with that typically expected in industry, such as informal and formal business correspondence, action plans, root cause analyses, contingency plans, white papers, and the like. The emphasis is not on the quantity, but rather the quality of the submissions.
All HSM courses are delivered entirely online and leverage a collaborative meeting platform to conduct team meetings, deliver presentations, and interact in real time with industry leaders. We employ an 8-week term format as opposed to a traditional 16-week semester for the 3000 and 4000 level courses. This accelerated model allow students to focus on fewer courses while becoming more immersed in the discipline. In order to aid students in judging the amount of time necessary to fulfill course requirements, the HSM courses employ a standardized structure that balances one’s individual effort with that of his or her team. The program welcomes students from a wide array of professional backgrounds and academic preparation and is geared to non-traditional, working adults.
Finally, we offer the country’s first program that allows eligible seniors to take up to 12 credit hours of graduate coursework from a partnering university which is applied towards your undergraduate degree requirements and provides you with up to a one-year head start on your graduate studies. The graduate programs make their curricula available entirely online.
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