A critical examination of the structural characteristics, organizational theory, and performance of the American system. Topics include the design of health care services organizations, modes of delivery, and access to as well as cost and quality of health care services. In the process of our study, we ll devote attention to such particulars as public vs. private sector concerns, the shift from hospital to ambulatory care, financial trends, managed care, and the measurement of inputs and outcomes. Senior Leadership Seminar A synthesizing of learning from previous study and experience, developed into a major report in which the student identifies a problem or process in an organizational setting, provides analysis and proposes appropriate action. The inquiry process, developed in consultation with the instructor and through activities with the group, addresses the dimensions of both management and leadership.
Students present their report in writing to the instructor and orally to the seminar group.
The report also serves as the basis for the oral senior assessment presentation for the Organizational Leadership and Health Care Leadership programs. The phenomenon of social change is so prevalent in our world and so frequently discussed that we tend to take it for granted. In fact, it is a very complex process, interrelated with other events and developments in the world. We will undertake a critical examination of the major theories of how and why change occurs, particular in relation to the emergence of world political and economic systems. Topics include the industrial revolution and colonialism, as well as modernization, socio-economic changes in the U.S., and the ecology movement in both the West and the Third World.