Certificates
Healthcare Management Certificate
The challenges facing healthcare managers today are many, but our research has determined that an effective manager must understand six clear core areas within healthcare in order to effectively address these challenges on a daily basis. To teach these courses, we have identified practicing experts from local industry who have the ability to transfer their knowledge into digestible classroom experiences.
Course content covers technology, economics, finance, management and leadership, quality, and cultural competence. An individual can attend class in the evening and then go to work the next day and apply what they have learned. One can immediately impact their personal on-the-job performance and improve their career in healthcare.
These classes are fun, interesting, and completely relevant to students' work experiences. They all include compelling conversation, peer-to-peer and instructor-to-student. Most faculty incorporate guest speakers, experiential learning exercises such as group discussion and presentation, and additional reading for those students with a desire to dig deeper into the theory behind any given concept.
Healthcare Management: Leadership Certificate
The Healthcare Management: Leadership Certificate is intended for individuals looking for innovative approaches to new leadership challenges. The course content covers contemporary issue by expert practitioners.
Students taking these courses have advanced experience as healthcare managers and have either completed our Healthcare Management Certificate or some professional or degree equivalent. Instructors assume that participants have significant prior exposure to the healthcare industry, management, and leadership.
Our class sizes are very small. No more than 20 students participate in each course, so there is plenty of opportunity for debate and discussion, even specific challenges presented by students themselves.
Course offerings
- Healthcare Management Ethics
- Strategy Design
- Developing Healthcare Policy
- Defining Your Leadership Vision
For more information on this certificate, contact program manager, Lori Silverman, at loris@pdx.edu, 503-725-5848 or 1-800-547-8887 ext 5848.
Those new to healthcare, or those who lack essential management experience, should earn our core Healthcare Management Certificate before considering this advanced leadership series.
