{"title":"Improving preparation for senior management in healthcare.","authors":"John R Griffith","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Noting the historical and practical relationship of management education in healthcare to business generally, this paper reviews and analyzes four recent criticisms of management education by Pfeffer and Fong, Ghoshal, Mintzberg, and Bennis. It concludes from that analysis that increased effort on assessing and improving healthcare education efforts is essential, and proposes a model for a national program of continuous improvement of educational practice. It reviews existing competency assessment tools in the light of needs, and suggests next steps for educators and practitioners.</p>","PeriodicalId":75078,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of health administration education","volume":"24 1","pages":"11-32"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40956723","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":"Innovative teaching for health law: a case study of a hospital medical malpractice lawsuit simulation.","authors":"Randall Carter Jenkins, Christy Harris Lemak","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In this article we describe a case study of a learning exercise for healthcare management students to more effectively understand how the legal process impacts healthcare organizations and healthcare professionals. Through a semester-long mock trial, we illustrate how healthcare executives can better understand and prepare their employees, their organization, and fellow administrators for the financial, emotional, and time investment that a lawsuit requires. Students participate as a member of the plaintiff team, defendant team, or juror in a simulated lawsuit brought by a patient against a hospital. We explain how students who participate in the simulated lawsuit gain a better understanding of difficult legal principles discussed throughout the course. We further indicate how the mock trial simulation may support achievement of current Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Management Education (CAMHE) criteria. Next, we highlight how the mock trial allowed students to put into practice many of the health law principles discussed in class through role playing the different stages of medical malpractice trial. The article concludes with examples of how a simulated mock trial may also provide similar interdisciplinary educational, performance improvement, and cost saving benefits to healthcare professionals and their organizations.</p>","PeriodicalId":75078,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of health administration education","volume":"24 1","pages":"43-57"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40955880","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 pharmacy leadership competency gap: diagnosis and prescription.","authors":"Gary L Filerman, Kathryn L Komaridis","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The purpose of this paper is to inform the health administration community and its educators about the importance of pharmacy leadership, the competencies associated with the role, and a suggested path to achieve a greater number of pharmacy leaders. The role of the pharmacy leader is often unrecognized or undervalued, yet it has significant implications for many facets of the healthcare delivery organization, including the cost of care, patient safety and quality, the influence and potential involvement of the pharmacist in the hospital or health system. Hospitals and health systems should recognize the power of an effective pharmacy leader, and strive to fill those positions. Unfortunately, should care leaders demand high performing pharmacy leaders, they will find that such individuals are in short supply, and will become more rare with time because of an aging pharmacy workforce. The health administration education community must respond to the demand by marrying pharmacy management education with the Master's in Health Administration degree (MHA). This article proposes the creation of a PharmD/MHA dual degree program, giving clinically trained pharmacists the skills they need to be effective managers and leaders in hospitals and health systems.</p>","PeriodicalId":75078,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of health administration education","volume":"24 2","pages":"117-34"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40502720","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":"Re-prioritizing doctoral education in health administration and policy.","authors":"Myron D Fottler","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Among health administration programs, doctoral education has been a low priority for decades. Programs which are profitable from an economic perspective tend to be maintained or expanded while less profitable programs tend to be reduced. For a variety of reasons, doctoral programs tend to be viewed as less profitable than other programs. This paper analyses why doctoral programs are a low priority, the symptoms of this low priority, implications for the future of health administration education, and recommendations for enhancing that future.</p>","PeriodicalId":75078,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of health administration education","volume":"24 3","pages":"201-19"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"27438142","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":"Commentary on \"Improving preparation for senior management in healthcare\" by John R. Griffith.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":75078,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of health administration education","volume":"24 2","pages":"93-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40502718","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 status of national and health administration doctoral education: issues for the 21st century.","authors":"Joel M Lee, Myron D Fottler","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Doctoral education is gaining increasing attention as new programs proliferate and enrollment grows. Presently there is no standardization of degrees programs, limited aggregated information about health administration education doctoral programs, and an absence of national policy. The general, doctoral education literature presents a variety of issues and challenges for doctoral health administration education including data trends, supply and demand for doctoral graduates, credential inflation, attrition and degree completion, organizational efforts to improve doctoral education, and strategies for the future. Following the literature review, survey results for a sub-sample of AUPHA affiliated doctoral programs are presented along with related implications.</p>","PeriodicalId":75078,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of health administration education","volume":"24 3","pages":"187-99"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"27438141","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}
Suzanne Havala Hobbs, Edward F Brooks, Virginia Wang, Asheley Cockrell Skinner
{"title":"Developing practitioner leaders in a distance education doctoral program: challenges and opportunities.","authors":"Suzanne Havala Hobbs, Edward F Brooks, Virginia Wang, Asheley Cockrell Skinner","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The nation's first executive doctoral program in health leadership was launched at the University of North Carolina School of Public Health in August 2005. The program confers a DrPH in health administration. This paper describes the program goals, admissions criteria, program structure and content, use of technology and results of initial program evaluations. Lessons learned during the planning and first three years of operation may assist others as they evaluate the feasibility and desirability of creating similar doctoral-level distance education programs. A critical need exists for additional programs able to attract and prepare top health leaders. This distance DrPH leadership program is one model for what may be the beginning of a promising new era in health leadership education.</p>","PeriodicalId":75078,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of health administration education","volume":"24 3","pages":"283-300"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"27438634","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}
Carleen H Stoskopf, Sudha Xirasagar, Whiejong M Han, Sonja Snowdon
{"title":"Exporting doctoral education: experience of a state-supported university.","authors":"Carleen H Stoskopf, Sudha Xirasagar, Whiejong M Han, Sonja Snowdon","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>There is a demand for non-traditional doctoral education in healthcare management and policy among many countries in support of their health system reform efforts. Healthcare professionals need retooling to provide stewardship to complex new health financing systems. Most health service leaders are mid career professionals and cannot transplant themselves to study on American university campuses. They demand high quality programs, designed to enable most coursework to be completed overseas. Aided by recent distance education technology, the University of South Carolina's Department of Health Services Policy and Management developed and provides doctoral programs for working professionals in Taiwan and South Korea with a minimal and convenient campus attendance requirement. This paper presents the experience of setting up the programs, management, quality control, and benefits for both students overseas and for our Department's mission and on-campus programs. Our experience is that there are many challenges, but it is also rewarding from academic, scholarly, and financial perspectives.</p>","PeriodicalId":75078,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of health administration education","volume":"24 3","pages":"301-19"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"27438635","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":"Commentary on \"Improving preparation for senior management in healthcare\" by John R. Griffith.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":75078,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of health administration education","volume":"24 2","pages":"91-2"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40513678","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":"Can they teach? Evidence-based pedagogy as a doctoral competency.","authors":"Lee F Seidel, Rosemary M Caron","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The question is whether and how health administration faculty will learn and thereby be able to use the research related to effective teaching in higher education. While the doctoral degree implies teaching competencies, doctoral education typically does not formally address, develop, or test it. Issues are identified. Models are proposed to incorporate evidence-based pedagogy into doctoral education to enhance the effectiveness of both teaching and learning in health administration education.</p>","PeriodicalId":75078,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of health administration education","volume":"24 3","pages":"221-34"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"27438143","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}