Executive Internship in Health Systems Administration

Catalog description

This executive-level internship experience offers students the opportunity to demonstrate advanced leadership/management competencies in a selected healthcare organization. Students will have the opportunity to demonstrate synthesis and application of previously acquired knowledge and skill during their involvement and participation in organizational planning at executive levels in complex integrated health care organizations. The experience will promote the application and utilization of advanced theoretical knowledge in new and existing situations within the administrative practice setting. Course focus is on the depth and breadth of integrated delivery system components and on the multicultural constituencies served by these systems. Learning outcomes stress creative leadership behaviors and the development of a strategic business initiative for a product or service that serves organization's constituency.