Master's in Medical Leadership

MML 512 - Foundations of Health Care Systems and Markets

This course will take a systems approach to study the foundational structure of the US healthcare system and the intertwined connectivity between all components of the system. It will expose the students to the history of the US healthcare system providing insights into the why and how it is currently structured and provide a foundation for transformational development. Additionally, this course will examine supply and demand for both health care consumers and providers, the macroeconomic scale of health care and the mix of public and private financing that sustains it.

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 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 610 - Strategic Thinking and Methods in Health Care 

This course addresses the need to be able to critically evaluate current services, markets, competition, technology, finance and broad trends to assess and plan for future development in 3-10 year time horizons. We will draw on specific strategy and strategic planning methods with examples from health care and other industries.

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 608 - Analytics and Information Technology Tools for Health Care

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 606 - Policy and Regulation in Health Care

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 504 - Ethics, Justice and Cultural Awareness in Health Care

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 514 - Marketing Health Care Services and Solutions

This course adresses how to create and tell an effective story around the what and why of any concept or program is critical to effective adoption within the organization, selling to your customers and then ongoing engagement by your staff, patients and others being served by the solution, product or service.

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.