Master Program
Earn a Master of Medical Management Degree in Healthcare Leadership and Innovation
The Master of Medical Management degree prepares current and aspiring clinical leaders with the quantitative and evidence-based management, leadership, and personal mastery skills that are requisite for successful leadership roles in the evolving consumer-driven market. The program’s focus is on developing positive change leaders who use design thinking to foster human-centered innovation.
Certificate Program Competencies
- Apply the guiding principles and capacities of positive human-centered leadership. Identify innovative human-centered leadership and operational design practices.
- List key components of relational high performing teams and positive organizational learning cultures. Explain human-centered organizational transformation and deployment of innovation strategies.
- Apply dialogic organizational development within strategic deployment of transformational change initiatives and organizational learning.
- Interpret current healthcare business models, applicable legal and policy issues, and contemporary financial and economic trends in the healthcare ecosystem.
- Apply quantitative decision modeling, economic analysis, and business statistics in applicable business models and design innovations.
- Practice personal mastery skills, professionalism, and relational capacities for effective communication, shared decision-making, and organizational development of appreciative business practices.
Master Program Courses
Never has there been a more important time for the public health and health care delivery systems to work together. We will never solve the big challenges, whether they be pandemics or chronic health epidemics, without collaboration from these two critical fields.
In this course, you will:
- Explore public health history, philosophy, and values.
- Consider the role of quantitative and qualitative methods and sciences in describing and assessing a population’s health.
- Examine the critical importance of evidence in advancing public health knowledge.
Effective healthcare leaders must be conversant in the economics of successful interventions. Beyond traditional economic analysis, leaders must apply psychological insights into human behavior around decision-making.
In this course, you will:
- Predict behavior related to the demand for health and health care.
- Apply cost-benefit and cost-effectiveness analysis in decisions.
- Analyze the effect of federal and state health care policy on the healthcare system.
Successful organizations create spaces that allow people to be their best. And that requires leaders to intentionally foster self-organizing, continuous, and cyclical innovations in culture.
In this course, you will:
- Analyze how the structure of organizations leads to intended and unintended consequences.
- Demonstrate how to remove organizational constraints that stymie learning.
- Recommend redesign of at least one cultural or system component of the organization.
- Demonstrate collective coaching for organizational learning and positive organizational design.
The complexities of the healthcare environment requires that leaders be fluent in the fundamentals of accounting and finance. Without this foundation, lasting organizational change is impossible.
In this course, you will:
- Apply key concepts underpinning financial accounting statements and budgeting to effective management of organizations.
- Apply key economic concepts to decisions allocating or reallocating organizational resources.
Effective leaders think critically and make solid data-driven decisions. These skills must be honed with practice – using predictive technology, simulations, and analytical frameworks.
In this course, you will:
- Solve problems using various tree-based decision tools.
- Apply probability theory for decision analysis and decision models.
- Describe contemporary managerial epidemiology and strategic population management in health care markets and market analysis.
- Apply measurement methods to local health care data to determine population-level risk.
Positive-change leaders must have an underlying strategic approach to foster humanizing change and organizational transformation. And this approach requires a portfolio of practical tools for planning, goal setting, analysis, and performance monitoring.
In this course, you will:
- Provide a rationale for selecting among strategy development and planning processes.
- Design a change approach, reaching all relevant levels of the organization, to implement your strategy.
- Design the deployment plan that will create the necessary engagement of key constituents to enable successful implementation of your strategy.
- Identify the broader organizational learning benefits of the strategy development and transformational change approaches.
With the guidance and mentorship of program faculty, this culminating experience asks that you propose an innovation and create an intrapreneurial or entrepreneurial business plan. These plans are presented in a proposal competition to leaders and key stakeholders.
In this course, you will:
- Propose an innovation, applying positive-change and authentic leadership capacities.
- Create a business plan.
- Propose the plan to leaders and engaged stakeholders.