Description
Throughout this course, students will explore the special factors that make the healthcare environment so unique. It will become clear throughout this course that the systemic barriers that exist in the U.S. healthcare system will require innovation and leadership of significant proportion; if they are to be overcome. Students will learn about leadership challenges in the healthcare environment and different approaches to leadership, and their applicability
to healthcare. In addition, students will be exposed to different pathways to leadership in healthcare and the pathgoal approach. Students will also study the ideas of ethics and trust in the healthcare leadership environment. Students complete the course with a final project where they design their own Healthcare Leadership and innovation intervention.