Advanced Simulation in Healthcare Management

Catalog description

This end-event will afford students the opportunity to integrate the knowledge and skills acquired throughout the program and apply them to a particular problem in healthcare management. Students will practice their skills working on teams, thinking strategically, drawing on evidence, and making trade-offs under time pressure and constraints, all as required in the real world. This will be delivered via a strategic simulation that engages student teams in an experiential exercise. Students will need to define their organization’s mission and vision, decide which strategies to adopt, and enact them at an operations level. The problem will draw upon student learning in the program, entailing considerations of funding, budgeting, partnership, and stakeholder analysis. The technology provides students real-time feedback on processes and performance in the field. Objectives of this end event include getting up to speed quickly in an organization; honing process skills; analyzing data and making evidence-based decisions. Students will write an individual reflective paper about their experience in the simulation.