Education Sessions 8:30am - 9:30am
Curriculum Mapping to Foster Competency: A Study in Advanced Financial Skills Development
Richard Belloff, DBA, Des Moines University
Carla Stebbins, PhD, Des Moines University
CAHME accreditation standards require the use of a competency model as the foundation for MHA program curriculum development. Candidate programs are free to develop their own competency model or adopt a model formulated by others, such as the National Center for Healthcare Leadership (NCHL).
This session will explore one program's experience with adopting and implementing the NCHL model. We will share our overall strategy for connecting the curriculum to the competency model. We will also illustrate the role of mapping specific competency outcome goals to course design, learning objectives, learning activities, and of course, assessments.
A "mini-case" will be shared, illustrating the actual application of these processes within an advanced financial management course. Participants will see how the curriculum mapping process led to a significant course re-design and to a series of innovative project-based modules for advance skill development. Student and instructor experience and feedback will be shared with participants to facilitate dialog.
Emerging Healthcare Domains and Interprofessional Education: Translation from Field to Classroom
Frederick Browne, PhD, Xavier University
Shital Shah, PhD, Rush University
Due to changes in the healthcare environment and technological advances, there are many emerging domains including patient experience, care coordination, patient safety, quality, and efficiency, interprofessional education, and big data. To prepare future leaders for this dynamic environment, Rush University and Xavier University have developed and implemented multiple courses as well as innovative non-traditional interprofessional education strategies. This session will focus on rapid cycle of identification, development, and implementation of courses in emerging domains as well as interprofessional education assignments. After sharing our experiences and lessons learned, there will be ample time for discussion.
Peer to Peer Instruction and Learning: What's the Potential, Reality, and Future Hold?
Abby Kazley, PhD, Medical University of South Carolina
Karen Wager, DBA, Medical University of South Carolina
During this session, panelists will demonstrate and describe two innovative peer-to-peer instruction activities used in a graduate residential health administration program. The first includes video recorded case study assignments used in a health care management course to spark discussion. The video cases are written, directed, and presented by MHA students and have since become part of an online library. The second activity is an interprofessional service learning project that involves MHA students working with occupational and physical therapy students on the planning, selection, implementation and evaluation of an electronic health record system in a local pro bono student-run clinic Both panelists will describe the assignments, related student competencies, challenges of implementation, and learning outcomes as well as student feedback about the assignments.
Population Health: The Catalyst for an MHA Teaching Transformation
Anne Hewitt, PhD, Seton Hall University
Nalin Johri, PHD, Seton Hall University
Is your program struggling with integrating population health concepts? Are you thinking about a new strategic plan? Looking for ways to facilitate faculty development? Scrambling to incorporate the best and most useful technology? Searching for career pathway models for your students? In order to remain relevant in the face of rapidly changing healthcare environment, health administration programs need to retool themselves. Given this reality, a suburban health administration program undertook deliberate steps to re-examine their program goals and teaching-learning activities to better prepare its students for these new foci. Join us for this interactive session that describes four unique change strategies to meet population health challenges. Teaching handouts, outlines and planning strategies will be shared that are appropriate and applicable for many other health management programs.
General Panel Session 3:30pm - 5:00pm
What Will We Be Looking For? Skills and Competences for Tomorrow’s Healthcare Leaders: Thoughts from the Frontline
This panel discussion will explore the needed competencies of future healthcare leaders as the industry moves from episode care to managing our community’s health. Senior healthcare executives representing both acute and ambulatory providers will share their insights on how the movement towards population health management will require new competencies and skills for adapting to and achieving success in tomorrow’s healthcare industry.
Practitioner Panelists:
Melida Akiti, Vice President, Memorial Healthcare System, South Broward Community Health Services
Gilda Baldwin, DHSc, Chief Executive Officer, Westchester General Hospital & Southern Winds Hospital
Javier Hernandez-Lichtl, FACHE, Chief Executive Officer and Corporate Chief Academic Officer, West Kendall Baptist Hospital
Mark Kent, FACHE, Chief Executive Officer, Women's Health Care
Nancy Borkowski, DBA, Professor, University of Alabama at Birmingham (Moderator)