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Health Care Management Education 40 Years Later

Wow, how time flies. Health Management pro- others look to develop, both personally ronment will bring.
The University of Miami’s grams globally including fel- and professionally. For those with managerial and leader-
Health Executive MBA low schools such as Harvard, As the health care sector approaches 20 ship aspirations, including clinical man-
program has just cele- Yale, University of Penn - percent of economic activity, it is not sur- agers, it is important to develop the entre-
brated its 40th anniver- sylvania (Wharton), Univer - prising that our offerings have expanded preneurial and intrapreneurial abilities to
sary, thereby making it sity of California, Berkeley, as well. We have now added a Masters in lead in this rapidly changing industry. A
one of the oldest business and the like. And now that Health Administration program (MHA) number of years ago, The Miami Herbert
school based Health The Miami Business School geared to those at an earlier stage in their Business School’s Health Executive MBA
Management and Policy has just been named The professional development as well as pro- program adopted the “gold standard” for
programs in the country. Miami Herbert Business viding an option for potential medical stu- competency development and achieve-
We have now graduated School, the result of a very dents in their “gap” year. ment, the National Center for Healthcare
well over a thousand stu- significant philanthropic gift, We now have an MD/MBA program, a Leadership (NCHL) competency model,
dents. It is worth noting the opportunities will grow Law/Health Administration degree, and a in order to assure that we are teaching and
that the program is now BY STEVEN G. further. very new and popular undergraduate undertaking cutting edge work. In the 45
ranked as the number ULLMANN, PH.D. The Department has come major and minor with a significant num- years that I have been working, teaching,
one program in the state a long way in its 40 years and ber of premed students, as they realize that researching, and consulting in this indus-
of Florida per U.S. News reflects the changing health they need to understand the workings of try, regionally, nationally, and globally, I see
and World Report, and further, is now care environment. Forty years ago, actual- the health care sector, even as they prepare the frustrations, concerns, “angst” that
ranked the number one Health Care ly, for that matter even 15 years ago, if we for Medical School. professionals feel as they navigate this
Executive MBA program in the United had one physician in a class cohort, that But this is a recurring theme we hear complex industry. It continues to get more
States. would have been considered a lot. from clinicians and other professionals in complex over time. Yet, with appropriate
The program is one of only a handful of Today physicians make up one-third to the field. They indicate that they feel that tools and knowledge acquired, it is cer-
programs nationally accredited by both one-half of the student cohort with each they are at a distinct disadvantage when tainly possible to feel a sense of control
the Business School accrediting body, The cohort rounded out by professionals from they are trying to provide efficient quality and accomplishment in helping to create a
Assembly of Accredited Collegiate Schools the wide range of organizations in the care as well as when they are in negotia- quality outcome in our own chosen area of
of Business (AACSB) and the Health health care industry including hospitals tions with various elements of the health work, i.e. “health care.”
Management accrediting body, The and health care systems, insurance, group care industry, whether it be hospital and
Commission on Accreditation of Health - practices, pharmaceuticals, retail pharma- integrated health care systems, vendors, Steven G. Ullmann, PhD, Professor and
care Management Education (CAHME). cies, hospice, rehabilitation, government, insurance companies, or when they are Chair, Department of Health Management
We are also a member of a very select entrepreneurs, etc. Clinicians and profes- organizing their supplies, figuring out how and Policy, Director, Center for Health
group of Business School based Health sionals are finding it increasingly impor- to manage their front and back office oper- Management and Policy, and Special
Management Programs, The Business tant to figure out how this very complex ations, understanding the finances of the Assistant to the Provost, Miami Business
Alliance for Health Management industry works and how it affects them. organization, stepping through the mine School, University of Miami, can be reached
Education (BAHM), a group of 17 of the Some wish to understand how to navigate field of legal issues, and trying to figure at Sullmann@miami.edu.
most prestigious Business School based successfully their work environment while out implications of what the political envi-

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