Explore the courses that shape your development as a healthcare leader. This curriculum is designed to build knowledge progressively—combining foundational concepts in public health, policy, and finance with advanced training in leadership, strategy, and real-world application. From analytics and law to communication and quality improvement, each course equips you with the practical skills and critical thinking needed to navigate today’s complex healthcare environment.
| Course | Description |
|---|---|
| EPID 53303 | Managerial Epidemiology This course teaches managers of personal and public health systems how to use epidemiological measures and methods to assess population health, identify and prioritize health and health care needs, plan for personal and public health services aimed at improving population health, and critically evaluate the accessibility and quality of private and public health services. |
| HPMT 51033 | The Healthcare System Analysis of system-wide issues related to delivery of healthcare in the United States, including organizational arrangements, financing, health status issues, health insurance, health manpower, and cost of healthcare, quality of healthcare, access and regulatory issues. |
| HPMT 51143 | Management of Healthcare Organizations The purpose of this course is to expose graduate students to the fundamental management issues and techniques that can be used to administer a health care organization. Students will gain experience applying these issues and techniques to a health care organization. The students are also expected to identify and apply relevant methods for evaluating health policies and programs and for assessing the performance of organizations and professions in the areas of quality, safety, accessibility, efficiency and equity. |
| HPMT 51163 | Communications and Negotiations for Health Leaders The purpose of this course is to develop foundation and skills in communications, negotiations, and relationship management. Health care administrators need these skills to manage people and to lead organizations. This course addresses essential skills that are sometimes referred to as ‘soft skills’ in the industry. |
| HPMT 51343 | Healthcare Finance I This course introduces students to basic accounting and financial principles and practices for healthcare managers. Emphasis is placed on understanding financial structures and the role of managers in budgeting, financial analysis, cost management, third-party reimbursement systems, working capital management, capital investment decisions, and management of financial risk. Weekly case studies of real-world healthcare financial management problems allow students to apply concepts and demonstrate understanding and skills learned. |
| HPMT 52033 | Health Law and Policy provides an overview of the health law system in the United States particularly as pertains to healthcare administrators and licensed providers. Utilizing the organizational schema of the text, the course is organized around central areas of health law in the US. In addition to conceptual discussions of “black letter” health law the course develops critical thinking skills and understanding of health law through review and application of actual appellate holdings, student/instructor and class debate during the semester. Integrated throughout the discussion of legal system and health law issues this course provides an overview of the policy generation and implementation process as pertains to the delivery of healthcare and administration of healthcare entities and systems. |
| HPMT 52143 | Healthcare Information Systems is designed to expose students to the purpose and value of health information systems. Various components of such systems, how such systems are designed and how information provided by such systems can assist day-to-day operations as well as strategic planning. |
| HPMT 52183 | Statistics for Healthcare Managers This course focuses on developing student skills in statistics and basic analytical functions using Microsoft Excel. Specific skills will include, preparing databases for analysis, conducting descriptive statistics, and hypothesis testing using bivariate and multivariable analyses. Class activities include recorded lectures/videos and programming work using Excel. |
| HPMT 52193 | Statistics for Laboratory Managers This course focuses on developing student skills in statistics and basic analytical functions using Microsoft Excel. Specific skills will include, preparing databases for analysis, conducting descriptive statistics, and hypothesis testing using bivariate and multivariable analyses. Special emphasis will be placed on the statistical analysis that is needed in clinical laboratory management. Class activities include recorded lectures/videos and programming work using Excel. |
| HPMT 52233 | Seminar in Human Resource Management Variety of situations and techniques involved in the management of human resources in healthcare institutions, including ethics, recruitment, training and development, grievance procedures, wage and salary administration, affirmative action, labor unions, and professional credentials. |
| HPMT 52343 | Health Economics and Insurance enables students to develop economic thinking to understand and seek solutions for healthcare problems. The focus is on linking economic theory and application, offering tools for innovating and overcoming risks and uncertainties inherent in healthcare, including insurance, pricing, service demand and population health. |
| HPMT 52353 | Advanced Topics in Healthcare Management explores current issues and innovations in healthcare management. Practical application of leadership and decision-making skills will be emphasized through simulation and case studies. Students will critically evaluate changes in healthcare management to ensure their long-term career success by reading and assessing current peer-reviewed literature. |
| HPMT 52363 | Advanced Topics in Laboratory Management This course explores current issues and innovations in laboratory management. Practical application of leadership and decision-making skills will be emphasized through simulation and case studies. Students will critically evaluate changes in laboratory management to ensure their long-term career success by reading and assessing current peer-reviewed literature and applying to real-world problems. |
| HPMT 52853 | Health Administration Residency A three-month administrative residency in a healthcare institution or agency; work experience under a qualified healthcare administrator with selected field projects and written reports. The residency is designed to provide “real world” experience in a healthcare organization, and so that students may apply program competencies learned in their first year of study. Full-time students perform their residency during the summer between their first and second years of study. |
| HPMT 52863 | Management Project Administrative problem defined by a healthcare institution or agency. This experience is designed so that part-time students may be exposed to “real world” experience in a healthcare organization. The student’s Preceptor and faculty supervisor develop a project which will be mutually beneficial to the student and the sponsoring organization. Part-time students complete this project during a summer session. |
| HPMT 52873 | Laboratory Management Project This course provides students an opportunity to work through and propose solutions for Medical Laboratory Management/Administrative problems as defined by a healthcare organization or agency. The course is designed to expose students to “real world” problem solving experiences in an operational lab and/or healthcare organization. The student, preceptor and faculty supervisor work together to develop a project which will be mutually beneficial to the student and the sponsoring organization. |
| HPMT 53333 | Healthcare Finance II The course continues to build accounting and financial skills and competencies for healthcare management. Students learn financial condition analysis, frameworks for financial decision-making, measuring financial risk, capital financing and structure, and revenue cycle management. Weekly case studies of real-world healthcare financial management problems allow students to apply concepts and demonstrate understanding and skills learned. |
| HPMT 53403 | Management Capstone Reviews policy and decisions making processes in healthcare institutions and agencies, uses case studies of healthcare institutions and agencies. This course is designed to provide a culminating experience and is specifically designed to provide students with experience applying many of the competencies learned earlier in the program. Culminating experience typically completed in last semester of the student’s course of study or by permission of instructor. |
| HPMT 53443 | Quality Management and Performance Improvement This course is designed to provide an introduction to performance improvement. In the first half, the course focuses on the Lean Six Sigma philosophy and terminology and provides the necessary tools to address complex problems. In the second half, the course covers a variety of special topics related to performance improvement, such as patient safety, teamwork, and change management. The material covered aims to provide students with conceptual, practical and analytical tools required to effectively develop and execute performance improvement initiatives in healthcare organizations. This course uses a combination of lectures, in-class case studies, projects, assignments, and exams. HPMT 53443 requires a pre-requisite of HPMT 52183. |
| HPMT 53453 | Laboratory Quality Management and Performance Improvement This course introduces performance improvement, Lean Six Sigma philosophy and terminology, and tools to address complex problems within the healthcare system in general and the medical laboratory specifically. Patient safety, teamwork, and change management are addressed, along with conceptual, practical and analytical tools required for performance improvement in medical laboratories and healthcare organizations. HPMT 53453 requires a pre-requisite of HPMT 52193. |
| HPMT 55833 | Strategic Healthcare Management In the 21st century the environment healthcare organizations are facing an environment which is changing at a more rapid rate than at any time in our history. The purpose of this course is to explore this change in detail and to provide future administrators with the tool necessary to manage and lead in a turbulent environment. The primary themes of the course are (1) The importance of culture in the leadership equation and techniques to move the culture of an organization in a desired direction, (2) The rise of transformational management and servant leadership as the driving forces of contemporary managerial theory and practices, (3) The increasing role of management in clinical affairs, (4) Exploration of the concept of strategic management, the development of relevant business models and strategic alliances, and the relationship of key stakeholders to mission attainment, and (5) the tools a modern administrator must possess to perform continuing surveillance of the strategic environment and to development of appropriate business plans. |
| PBHL 50033 | Introduction to Public Health An introduction to basic and contemporary issues of public health. It includes tools of community-based health assessment, surveillance, health promotion, disease prevention, and policy and ethics will be presented. This course provides an overview in the diverse areas of public health practice. |