Health Care Leadership

MS Program

The Health Care Leadership concentration provides students with a rigorous understanding of the following areas:

macro issues in the U.S. health care system and the major disciplinary approaches to them, focusing on microeconomics, organization theory, systems analysis, operations research, and political theory;

skills in leading change and improvement in health care systems;

barriers to making the health of the population better;

and approaches for taking costs out of the care while maintaining or improving quality and enhancing customer satisfaction.

Curricula

Summer

ECS 100: Inferential Methods and Systematic Review: Part 1

ECS 111: Critical Issues in Health and Health Care

ECS 140: Epidemiology and Biostatistics

ECS 176: MS Tutorial Series 1

Fall

ECS 102: Inferential Methods and Systematic Review: Part 2

EECS 117: Continual Improvement of Health Care

ECS 140: Epidemiology and Biostatistics (continued)

ECS 154: Social and Behavioral Determinants of Health

ECS 177: MS Tutorial Series 2

Choice of electives

Winter

ECS 101: Health Policy: Organizational & Delivery System Issues

ECS 115: Strategic & Financial Leadership of Health Care Institutions

ECS 126: Statistical Measurement and Analysis for Quality Improvement

ECS 178: MS Tutorial Series 3

Choice of electives

Spring

ECS 119/121: Decision and Cost-Effectiveness Analysis

ECS 124: Design and Improvement of Clinical Micro-Systems

ECS 179: MS Tutorial Series 4

ECS 197: Directed Research

Choice of electives

Shared Decision-Making
Dr. Hilary Llewellyn-Thomas (shown here teaching ECS 120: Studying Patients' Decisions) is an international expert on shared decision making - the incorporation of patients' perspectives into health care.

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