Curriculum

The Master of Management in Health Care curriculum includes 12 graduate-level credit hours dedicated to classes in management fundamentals, 12 credit hours focused on application of management fundamentals to health care delivery and a 6-credit hour strategy project that runs for the entire duration of the program.

30 credit hours / Six eight-week modules
	Management Core (one night per week)	Health Care Industry Courses (one weekend per month)	Capstone Project (throughout program)
Mod 1	Economics	Health Care Landscape & Innovation
Mod 2	Marketing	Strategic Marketing of Health Care Services
Mod 3	Accounting	Organizational Economics of Health Care Delivery
Mod 4	Finance	Accounting & Finance for Health Care Managers
Mod 5	Operations	Configuring & Optimizing Health Care Organizations
Mod 6	Leading Teams & Organizations	Strategies for High-Performance Organizations

Curriculum subject to change

The Management Core
12 credits / One night per week
The Management Core includes six graduate-level management courses that provide the solid business foundation upon which the health care industry-specific courses build. These modules are taught by the same professors who teach in the world-class Vanderbilt MBA programs. Owen’s faculty offer both theoretical and practical knowledge across comprehensive business disciplines.

Course #	Title	Credit(s)
MMHC 811	Accounting	2
MMHC 821	Economics	2
MMHC 831	Finance	2
MMHC 841	Leading Teams and Organizations	2
MMHC 861	Marketing	2
MMHC 871	Operations	2

Health Care Industry Courses
12 credits / One weekend per month
In tandem with the general management modules, these six intensive Health Care Weekend Courses ensure a solid health care platform for application so that students are challenged to apply the core management disciplines and are equipped to manage profitable, innovative health care programs and services. Senior leaders and managers from provider organizations partner with Owen faculty to provide the pragmatic insight required for these courses.

Course #	Title	Credit(s)
MMHC 803	Health Care Landscapes and Innovation	2
MMHC 809	Organizational Economics of Health Care Delivery	2
MMHC 818	Accounting and Finance for Health Care Manangers	2
MMHC 859	Strategies for High-Performance Health Care Organizations	2
MMHC 862	Strategic Marketing of Health Care Services	2
MMHC 878	Configuring and Optimizing Health Care Operations	2

Capstone Project
6 credits / Concurrent with one-year program
The Capstone Project engages students on a project of significant importance to their sponsoring organizations. With faculty oversight, students must demonstrate rigorous application of business concepts and disciplines. The student team is responsible for diagnosing the critical problem, defining an appropriate scope of work, managing institutional expectations and producing a suitable recommendation in both written and presentation form.

Examples of Capstone Projects include:

Enhancing current programs and services or extending them to new territories
Redesigning a process or physical plant for optimal efficiency
Developing a business plan for a new product or service
Designing more effective sales and marketing programs for existing services