Master's in Medical Leadership

MML 502 - Public Health Perspectives and Issues

This course introduces healthcare leaders to the key public health principles of promoting wellness and preventing injury, illness, and death in communities and populations. Learning in the course integrates health systems and community based services while incorporating evidence-based research in epidemiology, social determinants of health, and public health policy that examine historical and current inequities that influence community health needs at local, national, and global levels.

MML 504 - Ethics and Justice in Healthcare Management

This course addresses the moral, ethical, and legal environment of health care services by evaluating implications of policy-decisions from a justice perspective within clinical and research settings. Key issues discussed include patient autonomy, privacy, quality control, outcome disparity, regulatory compliance, and institutional biases that contribute to health inequities while applying ethical leadership principles to facilitate organizational change.

MML 506 - Organizational Behavior in Health Care Management

Using concepts and models from social psychology, communications, and organization theory, the course examines communication, decision-making, motivation, commitment, and conduct in health care organizations, primarily at the individual and group level. Students will examine how attitudes, values, beliefs, and personalities affect organizational conduct and how to build and manage effective teams in complex organizations.

MML 508 - Financial Administration in Health Care Enterprises

This broad disciplinary course evaluates the broad topics of the financial structure of health care enterprises from operating and capital perspectives. Its purpose is to help leaders understand the business model of healthcare enterprises for effective financial decision-making. As a business methods course, it uses approaches from operations management, managerial finance, and accounting. Central issues in the course are the role of third-party payers, analysis of cash flow, need for capital, and financial sustainability.

MML 510 - Project Management in Health Care

This course examines project definition, project selection, project planning, estimating, scheduling, resource allocation, stakeholder management, risk management, and project control. Students will explore and analyze the successive stages of project design within the healthcare environment by blending project management methods, technology, case studies, and community activities.

MML 602 - Cultural Awareness and Practice for Health Care Leaders

This multifaceted course emphasizes the cognition of cultural identity among patients and colleagues in healthcare organizations, the critical impact of culturally appropriate relationships on both patient well-being and organizational performance, and leaders’ responsibilities to maintain cultural awareness and appropriate conduct. Drawing on contemporary frameworks for analyzing issues of diversity, equity, inclusion, and access in healthcare, students will identify cultural competencies needed to effectively engage patients and their families in the healthcare system to address barriers in care and services.

MML 604 - Economic Analysis of HealthCare Systems and Markets

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This course uses economic analysis to examine supply and demand for both healthcare consumers and providers at the macroeconomic scale of healthcare and the mix of public and private financing that sustains it. In doing so, it draws on microeconomics, macroeconomics, public administration, and public policy to evaluate how healthcare outcomes are influenced by changing market forces, social forces, and government forces.

MML 606 - Policy and Regulation in Healthcare

The Covid pandemic increased attention to public health policy issues, including government delivery and intervention. Health care leaders should be aware of the evolving legal and regulatory environment for delivery, but also the policy process at local, state, and national levels. This course examines the health care public policy environment at different government levels. It draws on policy analysis, advocacy, legal studies, public finance, and public administration. Students learn about development and implementation processes from public regulators, licensors, and funders.

MML 608 - Analytics and IT Methods for Health Care Management

The course uses tools drawn from MIS, statistics, experimental and quasi-experimental design, and decision modeling. Cases in the course examine data acquisition, warehousing, statistical modeling, and electronic medical records protocols, ethical and cultural issues in IT management. The course will help leaders manage the benefits and risks of healthcare technology and data for patients and staff, including ethical concerns and regulatory requirements.

MML 690 - Culminating Leadership Activity

The Culminating Leadership Activity (CLA) is a capstone activity for each individual graduating leader. A variety of projects and outcomes may be suitable, including a thesis, or achievement and documentation of a significant leadership accomplishment, such as an action research project, a significant service, or creation of a notably complex and rigorous program of guidance and training of colleagues and fellow students. The CLA is taken near the end of the program, drawing on learning from all program courses. It is intended to study and amplify relationships between the practice areas of health care leadership, to prepare leaders to integrate and apply learning from their study.