| Course Code | Name | Course Description |
| HCA7012-8 | Health Care Industry and Financial Management | This doctoral level course focuses on an enhanced level of understanding of what it takes to captain healthcare organizations through these tough financial times. Mastery of course concepts require demonstration of critical thinking and communication skills by a combination of APA style research papers, self-assessments, quantitative reasoning, and observations, interviews, and written assignments. |
| HCA7013-8 | Legal and Ethical Issues in Health Care Research Management | This Doctoral level course is designed for Learners with a focus on research management and ethics within the health care industry. Using cases and examples, the first part of the course focuses on major management and leadership issues and the second part deals with legal and ethically relevant matters. These may include research methods, various publishing and authorship issues, conflicts of interest and misconduct, human subjects, intellectual property, and data manipulation. |
| HCA7014-8 | Advanced Concepts and Applications in Health Policy and Management | This comprehensive Doctoral level course focuses on key principles and practices of health care management, planning, and policy-making. Learners will study key principles of the historical development, structure, and operation of the health care delivery system and will explore the way health care is delivered, the role of policy formulation, and health care resource and ethical considerations. Mastery of course concepts requires demonstration of critical thinking and communication. |
| HCA7015-8 | Health Care Educational Theory and Application | In this doctoral course, Learners evaluate the present the health care delivery system and educational theories. This course utilizes the Learners skills in comprehension, analysis, and synthesis to integrate these frameworks in the design and evaluation of health care industry. Mastery of course concepts requires demonstration of critical thinking and communication skills by a combination of research papers, self-assessments, quantitative reasoning, interviews, observations, case studies, written assignments or other activities. |
| HCA7020-8 | Global Issues in Health Care Policy and Management | This doctoral course will address the global issues of health care policy and management with particular emphasis on global perspectives. These global perspectives are both comparative and trans-national. Thus, the focus will compare the ethical approaches to health system issues in various countries on informed consent, refusal of treatment, physician-assisted suicide, and reproductive health. Finally, the course will examine issues regarding U.S. health professionals and organizations providing services in other countries. |
| HCA8010CAGS-8 | Healthcare Administration | The Learner will create a comprehensive research project that seeks to create a unique solution to a stated, real or hypothetical defined topic approved by the Mentor. Research scope and definitions must be declared before the specific approved project can commence. Learners will be assessed on demonstrated proficiency in designed assignments, which will culminate into a final research project. |
