Health

The MBA in Health Program Curriculum

General Description

1. The MBA in Health is offered on a trimestral basis. Class work is one (1) day a week (Saturdays) with two courses of three hours each per session for fourteen (14) sessions per trimester.
2. The program is completed in seven (7) consecutive trimesters or a total of twenty eight (28) months. Students with a fixed load of six (6) units per trimester are able to complete the academic requirements within this period. Students who develop their strategic management paper early during their course work can graduate by the last (7th) trimester.
3. The maximum load per trimester is two (2) courses. Additional load requires approval from the director of MBAH.
4. The MBA in Health Program consists of the following courses:
   

   Major Course	12 units
   Core Courses in Management	21 units
   Electives	6 units
   Integrating Course	3 units
   Total	42 units

5. The required health care core courses serve as foundation and context by which the student is challenged to understand and apply the structure and operation of health care systems. The major MBA courses give the student a solid mastery of management fundamentals.
6. Attendance in all courses is required. Absence from class for a total of 20% of sessions per course may be considered as excused absences.
7. Instructional methodology is of graduate level quality. To provide the students with the foundation for professional practice of general management in the health care enterprise, a combination of lectures, workshops, home-reading assignments, case studies, field work, self-learning modules and directed research are used that:
   • Provide factual and practical knowledge of the health care field
   • Strengthen the student’s faculties of analysis, problem-solving, and decision-making
   • Challenge the student’s initiative and self-discipline
   • Encourage independent thought, intensity of purpose, freedom from bias, thoroughness of inquiry, originality and creativity
   • Promote group interaction and cooperation, and
   • Foster a high sense of professional responsibility.