Curriculum

COURSE SCHEDULE

Students meet as a cohort on campus every other weekend, on both Friday (1:00-9:00pm) and Saturday (8:00am – 5:00pm), for a total of seven sessions per quarter, for two academic years (August – June).*

Fall – Year 1

Friday
1:00pm – 5:00pm	6:00pm – 9:00pm
PUB HLT 201 – Principles of Public Health Explores the foundations of public health and illustrates public health challenges at the local, national, and global level, and current strategies for advancing population health. Faculty: Dr. Shira Shafir	Group Work/Professional Development Session
Saturday
8:00pm – 12:00pm	1:00pm – 5:00pm
HPM 200A – Health Systems Organization and Financing In-depth analysis of health services systems in the U.S. Faculty: Dr. Burt Cowgill	HPM M236 – Microeconomic Theory of Health Sector Microeconomic aspects of the healthcare system, including health manpower substitution, market efficiency, and competition. Faculty: Dr. Dhruv Khurana

Winter – Year 1

Friday
1:00pm – 5:00pm	6:00pm – 9:00pm
BIOS 100A – Introduction to Biostatistics Introduction to methods and concepts of statistical analysis. Faculty: Dr. Martin Lee	Group Work/Professional Development Session
Saturday
8:00pm – 12:00pm	1:00pm – 5:00pm
HPM 280 – Health Reform: Policy, Research, and Implementation Issues Analysis of major federal healthcare reform legislative initiatives to identify policy, research, and implementation issues. Faculty: Jonathan Freedman	HPM 234 – Health Services Organization and Management Theory Applications of contemporary organization and management theory to systems that provide personal healthcare services. Faculty: Yvette Holguin

Spring – Year 1

Friday
1:00pm – 5:00pm	6:00pm – 9:00pm
HPM 403 – Healthcare Financial Accounting Introduction to financial and managerial accounting and its application to the health services industry. Faculty: Mike Galper	Group Work/Professional Development Session
Saturday
8:00pm – 12:00pm	1:00pm – 5:00pm
HPM M422 – Practices of Evaluation in Health Service: Theory and Methodology Examination and performance of specific health services evaluation procedures, conducting investigations, reporting results and methodologies. Faculty: Dr. Becky Yano; Dr. Isomi Miake-Lye	HPM 215A – Healthcare Quality and Performance Management Exploration of ways in which individual units function in the larger health delivery system. Faculty: Dr. Jennifer Wortham

Fall – Year 2

Friday
1:00pm – 5:00pm	6:00pm – 9:00pm
HPM 434 – Building Advocacy Skills: Reproductive Health Focus Skills-building course to develop competency in assessing, developing, and implementing advocacy strategies for reproductive health initiatives. Faculty: Dr. Julie Elginer	HPM 400 – Applied Project Review Project write-up and oral presentations of summer field work in selected community organizations in public health or medical care delivery. Faculty: Mike Galper
Saturday
8:00pm – 12:00pm	1:00pm – 5:00pm
HPM 436 – Healthcare Financial Management Designed to prepare students for financial management responsibilities in healthcare. Faculty: Tom Armentrout-Wiswall	HPM 441 – Data Analytics: Identifying, Collecting, and Analyzing Data in Healthcare Exploration of data sources and uses in healthcare, e.g., electronic medical records, social media, wireless biosensors, system and facility data. Faculty: John Tanouye

Winter – Year 2

Friday
1:00pm – 5:00pm	6:00pm – 9:00pm
HPM 433 – Healthcare Strategy Conceptual, analytical, and technical aspects of policy and strategy formulation in health service organizations. Faculty: Nicole Haskell; Dr. Leah Vriesman	Group Work/Professional Development Session
Saturday
8:00pm – 12:00pm	1:00pm – 5:00pm
HPM 442 – Integrated Health Systems Introduction to technical and organizational developments of integrated health systems in the U.S., and how they function. Faculty: Avram Kaplan	HPM 445 – Healthcare Marketing Survey course covering theory and applications of strategic planning and marketing concepts as they apply to healthcare organizations. Faculty: Dr. Julie Elginer

Spring – Year 2

Friday
1:00pm – 5:00pm	6:00pm – 9:00pm
HPM 437 – Legal Environment of Health Services Management General survey of legal aspects of health services management, including governance, agency, informed consent, and medical malpractice. Faculty: Tony Schiff; Alicia Macklin	Group Work/Professional Development Session
Saturday
8:00pm – 12:00pm	1:00pm – 5:00pm
HPM 232 – Leadership Capstone Seminar Examination of principles and models of organization leadership, including presentation by leaders in the field of health. Faculty: Tom Gordon	HPM 240 – Global Health Institutions, Policies, and Systems Analysis of crucial issues in healthcare probed in settings of European welfare states, developing nations, and socialist countries. Faculty: Dr. Julie Elginer

*Schedule subject to change

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