Program Requirements
The Graduate Certificate in Healthcare Management focuses on a range of managerial skills to positively impact the quality, efficiency and fiscal responsibility of health care delivery. This includes: leading transformation, financial management and analysis, leading and managing people, conflict resolutions and negotiations, process analysis in health care settings, managing and improving quality in health care systems, and health management. The program will be offered in collaboration with the Faculty of Medicine.
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Required Courses (15 credits)
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ACCT 645D1 Financial Management in Healthcare (1 credit)
Overview
Accounting : Concepts of financial accounting to the non-accountant user of financial information. Fundamental knowledge of financial accounting, including financial statements, accounting 鈥渞ules鈥�, assets, liabilities and equity, the income statements as well as the financial statement analysis.
Terms: Winter 2025
Instructors: Breitner, Leslie (Winter)
Students must register for both ACCT 645D1 and ACCT 645D2
No credit will be given for this course unless both ACCT 645D1 and ACCT 645D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
ACCT 645D1 and ACCT 645D2 together are equivalent to ACCT 645
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ACCT 645D2 Financial Management in Healthcare (1 credit)
Overview
Accounting : For description see ACCT 645D1.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Prerequisite: ACCT 645D1
No credit will be given for this course unless both ACCT 645D1 and ACCT 645D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
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BUSA 647D1 Healthcare Management Practicum (2 credits)
Overview
Business Admin : Preparation of a research proposal on a problem in any healthcare setting from problem statement to methodology. Implementation of the methodology, including sample selection, collecting data, and completing an appropriate data analysis. Drawing data-based conclusions and recommendations that address the problem statement. Presenting and defending the students鈥� research process, including findings, and recommendations.
Terms: Winter 2025
Instructors: Breitner, Leslie (Winter)
Students must register for both BUSA 647D1 and BUSA 647D2
No credit will be given for this course unless both BUSA 647D1 and BUSA 647D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
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BUSA 647D2 Healthcare Management Practicum (2 credits)
Overview
Business Admin : For description see BUSA 647D1.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Prerequisite: BUSA 647D1
No credit will be given for this course unless both BUSA 647D1 and BUSA 647D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
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MGCR 629 Healthcare Leadership (1 credit)
Overview
Management Core : An introduction to the leadership challenges of the 21st century in a rapidly changing global environment at the intersection of business and society.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
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MGSC 641D1 Operations Management in Health Services (1 credit)
Overview
Management Science : Why effective operations management is essential to delivering safe, high-quality, cost-effective and patient-centred care. Fundamental concepts necessary to observe and understand the patient flows, including measuring demand and capacity, identifying key performance measures and pinpointing the sources of variability. Strategies to improve the patient flows, including workforce planning, optimization of admission and discharge processes as well as real-time demand and capacity management.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Students must register for both MGSC 641D1 and MGSC 641D2
No credit will be given for this course unless both MGSC 641D1 and MGSC 641D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
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MGSC 641D2 Operations Management in Health Services
(1 credit)
Overview
Management Science : For description see MGSC 641D1.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Prerequisite: MGSC 641D1
No credit will be given for this course unless both MGSC 641D1 and MGSC 641D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
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MGSC 642D1 Quality Management in Healthcare (1 credit)
Overview
Management Science : Quality management concepts and tools with a focus on healthcare. Techniques and tools in collect and processing data on safety and quality. Quality improvement models and frameworks. Lean process improvement tools and scientific methodologies for understanding, analyzing and improving work processes. Sigma methodologies to eliminate quality defects. The most recent lean and six sigma applications that aim to provide better care at lower cost.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Students must register for both MGSC 642D1 and MGSC 642D2
No credit will be given for this course unless both MGSC 642D1 and MGSC 642D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
MGSC 642D1 and MGSC 642D2 together are equivalent to MGSC 642
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MGSC 642D2 Quality Management in Healthcare (1 credit)
Overview
Management Science : For description see MGSC 642D1.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Prerequisite: MGSC 642D1
No credit will be given for this course unless both MGSC 642D1 and MGSC 642D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
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ORGB 643D1 Leading and Managing People in Healthcare (1 credit)
Overview
Organizational Behaviour : Applying leadership and management, human decision-making, human motivation, teams and conflict, persuasion, influence, and inter-dependence, power and politics, learning in teams and organizations, and leading change to healthcare organizations and healthcare professionals.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Students must register for both ORGB 643D1 and ORGB 643D2
No credit will be given for this course unless both ORGB 643D1 and ORGB 643D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
ORGB 643D1 and ORGB 643D2 together are equivalent to ORGB 643
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ORGB 643D2 Leading and Managing People in Healthcare (1 credit)
Overview
Organizational Behaviour : For rationale see ORGB 643D1.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Prerequisite: ORGB 643D1
No credit will be given for this course unless both ORGB 643D1 and ORGB 643D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
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ORGB 644D1 Managerial Negotiations in Healthcare (1 credit)
Overview
Organizational Behaviour : Fundamentals of negotiation and dispute resolution in order to better understand the dynamics that lead to successful negotiation outcomes in healthcare settings: distributive negotiations, integrative negotiations, ethics, salary and contract negotiations, cross cultural negotiations, gender and negotiations, interests rights and power, online and third party negotiations.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Students must register for both ORGB 644D1 and ORGB 644D2
No credit will be given for this course unless both ORGB 644D1 and ORGB 644D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
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ORGB 644D2 Managerial Negotiations in Healthcare (1 credit)
Overview
Organizational Behaviour : For description see ORGB 644D1.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Prerequisite: ORGB 644D1
No credit will be given for this course unless both ORGB 644D1 and ORGB 644D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
