Elizabeth H Bradley, Emily Cherlin, Susan H Busch, Andrew Epstein, Bradley Helfand, William D White
{"title":"Adopting a competency-based model: mapping curricula and assessing student progress.","authors":"Elizabeth H Bradley, Emily Cherlin, Susan H Busch, Andrew Epstein, Bradley Helfand, William D White","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Much attention has been focused on integrating competency-based curricula into educational programs in health management. Achieving the benefits of competency-based curricula requires substantial effort to identify competencies that are both specific and comprehensive, and that reflect consensus among faculty and stakeholders. The objective of this paper is to describe an approach to competency-based curriculum development and monitoring of students' progress toward competency achievement. Our approach identifies 20 competency areas, organized in technical, analytical/conceptual, and interpersonal domains. We demonstrate how individual courses can be mapped to these 20 competency areas and provide survey data on students' and graduates' self-rated competencies. We find the self-rated competencies of new graduates were significantly higher than the self-rated competencies of entering students in 17 of the 20 areas. Our work illustrates an approach to competency-based education that is feasible and helpful for program planning and evaluation. The list of competencies is tractable; the mapping of competencies to didactic coursework and practical experiences is clear and reflects reasonable consensus among faculty and preceptors. Finally, the approach is flexible, as competency areas can be added and removed to be responsive to new research evidence and the changing needs of the field.</p>","PeriodicalId":75078,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of health administration education","volume":"25 1","pages":"37-51"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40011700","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The State of Doctoral Education in Health Administration and Policy revisited.","authors":"Myron Fottler, Joel Lee","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":75078,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of health administration education","volume":"24 3","pages":"183-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"27438140","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The view from within: a comparison of traditional and non-traditional doctoral education from students' perspectives ... then and now.","authors":"Reid Oetjen, Dawn Oetjen","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article compares and contrasts the differing doctoral experiences of the traditional and nontraditional doctoral programs. This paper examines the doctoral experiences at a traditional doctoral program, the University of Alabama at Birmingham's (UAB) Administration of Health program, and at a nontraditional program, the University of Central Florida's (UCF) Public Affairs doctoral program. Additionally, this paper explores the characteristics of each of these types of programs, including the benefits and drawbacks based upon research, as well as from firsthand experience. The authors share their personal experiences from the perspective of academics working in the field for several years. Lastly, the authors present several avenues for future research to further explore the differences between traditional and nontraditional doctoral educational programs.</p>","PeriodicalId":75078,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of health administration education","volume":"24 3","pages":"235-51"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"27438144","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Artful leadership in healthcare: encouraging the possible.","authors":"Lloyd Greene, George Burke","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A dramatic trend has developed in leadership preparation: the use of Arts Based Training (ABT). Recent literature has reported that the corporate world and graduate business degree programs have discovered the significant value that the arts can play in educating and developing management talent. The MFA (Master of Fine Arts) is the new MBA! The reasoning behind this shift is the increased need for \"right brain\" thinkers. This trend may very well extend to healthcare leadership. This paper provides a comprehensive literature review, a section on possibilities for ABT in healthcare organizations, a section on possibilities for ABT in Graduate Education of Healthcare Leaders, a summary rationale for using ABT for developing healthcare leaders, and conclusions and recommendations.</p>","PeriodicalId":75078,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of health administration education","volume":"24 4","pages":"377-89"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40422884","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Up close & personal: ways to enhance relations between program directors and their advisory boards.","authors":"Carol Molinari","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":75078,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of health administration education","volume":"24 4","pages":"399-404"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40422886","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Teaching and learning teamwork: competency requirements for healthcare managers.","authors":"Sandra G Leggat","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This paper addresses an essential element of postgraduate health service management education - development of individual competencies to enhance teamwork among health service managers. A survey of qualified health service managers in the state of Victoria, Australia revealed a set of individual competencies that the managers felt made a positive contribution to the success of workplace teams. The identified competencies included skills in leadership and communication; clinical knowledge and knowledge of organizational goals and strategies; motives such as commitment to the organization, to quality, to working collaboratively and to a consumer focus; and respect for others as a trait. Building on acknowledged teaching and learning theories, a teamwork teaching and learning model was successfully introduced into the postgraduate health services management curriculum at La Trobe University in Melbourne.</p>","PeriodicalId":75078,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of health administration education","volume":"24 2","pages":"135-49"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40502721","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"One program's reflections on the current state of competency-based healthcare management education.","authors":"William E Welton","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":75078,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of health administration education","volume":"24 2","pages":"79-89"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40513677","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Graham Prize Address. The William B Graham Prize for Health Services Research acceptance speech delivered June 2, 2007.","authors":"Donald M Berwick","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":75078,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of health administration education","volume":"24 1","pages":"5-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40956722","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An analysis of the impact of the David A. Winston Health Policy Fellowship.","authors":"Sonya Rochelle Jones, Gary L Filerman","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The objective of the David A. Winston Health Policy Fellowship is to attract and to encourage promising individuals to become successful participants in the health policy process, particularly at the interface of the public and private sectors. From 1987, when the Fellowship was established, through 2004-2005, there have been nineteen Fellows and approximately 65 additional finalists. All but one Fellow hold an MHA or equivalent degree and several hold additional advanced degrees. In comparison to the Fellows, fewer finalists hold additional advanced degrees. The Winston Fellowship Board initiated this study to identify the impact of the Fellowship on the careers of the recipients and, if possible, to track the careers of the finalists to determine the extent to which they have been active in the policy process. The findings are based on a high response rate from former Fellows and a small sample of finalists. Compared to the finalists, the Fellows have been more involved in the policy process and first post-Fellowship employment of Fellows has trended towards Congress in recent years. Fellows noted strengths and weaknesses of the program and made suggestions for improvement. There was agreement among the Fellows that the Fellowship program did influence career direction and content, but it was not possible to draw clear inferences of cause and effect.</p>","PeriodicalId":75078,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of health administration education","volume":"24 1","pages":"33-41"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40956724","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Kentucky plan revisited: lessons learned from an innovative doctoral education program.","authors":"Joel M Lee, F Douglas Scutchfield, Raymond Hill","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In the first doctoral education special issue of the Journal of Health Administration Education, the authors presented the University of Kentucky College of Public Health's plans for an innovative new Doctor of Public Health (Dr. P.H.) degree. The degree as designed, prepares graduates for professional practice, and included extensive supervised field experience as part of the academic training linking theory with practice. Based upon the interest that the Kentucky Dr.P.H. degree program received, the authors will share the experience of the degree's initial years of operation through a \"lessons learned\" paper. As the program evolved there have been many lessons related to trends, curriculum design, admissions, prerequisite requirements, curriculum innovations, scheduling, the comprehensive examination, and attrition. In addition, there are many questions for the future. \"In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are not.\"-- Lawrence Peter \"Yogi\" Berra.</p>","PeriodicalId":75078,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of health administration education","volume":"24 3","pages":"269-81"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"27438633","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}