For example, DHMI coordinates the offering of short courses for junior and senior officers as well as executive courses for general officers in healthcare management. A graduate-level certificate program in Health Systems Management is also offered. The six courses are delivered primarily through distance learning platforms to non-residential NPS students using their IMET grant funds.
Students can select from several available electives to fulfill the certificate requirements.
The certificate program offers countries the opportunity to educate large numbers of students in the basic principles of healthcare management that are important to them through the use of the Internet and video-teleconferencing technology. 818 curriculum, international students can obtain a Masters Degree in Health Systems Management. The collaboration between the NPS department of Systems Management and DHMI offers the international community a graduate level degree at a significantly reduced cost, thereby enabling countries with small IMET budgets to begin building immediately a cadre of healthcare executives and for those countries with larger budgets to double their through-put.