Healthcare Management (Gr. Cert.) (15 credits)
Offered by: Management (Desautels Faculty of Management)
Program credit weight: 15
Program Description
The Graduate Certificate in Healthcare Management focuses on a range of managerial skills to positively impact the quality, efficiency and fiscal responsibility of health care delivery. This includes: leading transformation, financial management and analysis, leading and managing people, conflict resolutions and negotiations, process analysis in health care settings, managing and improving quality in health care systems, and health management. The program will be offered in collaboration with the Faculty of Medicine.
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Required Courses (15 credits)
| Course | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| ACCT 645D1 | Financial Management in Healthcare. | 1 |
Financial Management in Healthcare. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Concepts of financial accounting to the non-accountant user of financial information. Fundamental knowledge of financial accounting, including financial statements, accounting “rules”, assets, liabilities and equity, the income statements as well as the financial statement analysis. | ||
| ACCT 645D2 | Financial Management in Healthcare. | 1 |
Financial Management in Healthcare. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. For description see ACCT 645D1. | ||
| BUSA 647D1 | Healthcare Management Practicum. | 2 |
Healthcare Management Practicum. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Preparation of a research proposal on a problem in any healthcare setting from problem statement to methodology. Implementation of the methodology, including sample selection, collecting data, and completing an appropriate data analysis. Drawing data-based conclusions and recommendations that address the problem statement. Presenting and defending the students’ research process, including findings, and recommendations. | ||
| BUSA 647D2 | Healthcare Management Practicum. | 2 |
Healthcare Management Practicum. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. For description see BUSA 647D1. | ||
| MGCR 629 | Healthcare Leadership. | 1 |
Healthcare Leadership. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. An introduction to the leadership challenges of the 21st century in a rapidly changing global environment at the intersection of business and society. | ||
| MGSC 641D1 | Operations Management in Health Services. | 1 |
Operations Management in Health Services. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Why effective operations management is essential to delivering safe, high-quality, cost-effective and patient-centred care. Fundamental concepts necessary to observe and understand the patient flows, including measuring demand and capacity, identifying key performance measures and pinpointing the sources of variability. Strategies to improve the patient flows, including workforce planning, optimization of admission and discharge processes as well as real-time demand and capacity management. | ||
| MGSC 641D2 | Operations Management in Health Services . | 1 |
Operations Management in Health Services . Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. For description see MGSC 641D1. | ||
| MGSC 642D1 | Quality Management in Healthcare. | 1 |
Quality Management in Healthcare. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Quality management concepts and tools with a focus on healthcare. Techniques and tools in collect and processing data on safety and quality. Quality improvement models and frameworks. Lean process improvement tools and scientific methodologies for understanding, analyzing and improving work processes. Sigma methodologies to eliminate quality defects. The most recent lean and six sigma applications that aim to provide better care at lower cost. | ||
| MGSC 642D2 | Quality Management in Healthcare. | 1 |
Quality Management in Healthcare. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. For description see MGSC 642D1. | ||
| ORGB 643D1 | Leading and Managing People in Healthcare. | 1 |
Leading and Managing People in Healthcare. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Applying leadership and management, human decision-making, human motivation, teams and conflict, persuasion, influence, and inter-dependence, power and politics, learning in teams and organizations, and leading change to healthcare organizations and healthcare professionals. | ||
| ORGB 643D2 | Leading and Managing People in Healthcare. | 1 |
Leading and Managing People in Healthcare. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. For rationale see ORGB 643D1. | ||
| ORGB 644D1 | Managerial Negotiations in Healthcare. | 1 |
Managerial Negotiations in Healthcare. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Fundamentals of negotiation and dispute resolution in order to better understand the dynamics that lead to successful negotiation outcomes in healthcare settings: distributive negotiations, integrative negotiations, ethics, salary and contract negotiations, cross cultural negotiations, gender and negotiations, interests rights and power, online and third party negotiations. | ||
| ORGB 644D2 | Managerial Negotiations in Healthcare. | 1 |
Managerial Negotiations in Healthcare. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. For description see ORGB 644D1. | ||