The University of Oklahoma, Executive Healthcare Training Academy
Certificate in Healthcare Leadership
Certificate Programs:
Healthcare organizations seek leaders who possess high-level leadership skills. Acquiring the right combination of insights, innovative problem solving, and interpersonal skills is a challenge in today’s rapidly changing healthcare market. The increasing cost and quality pressures of healthcare services raise the demand for competent, creative leaders and managers. Providing managers exposure to new skills and training is critical to prepare them to lead the organization successfully through this new environment.
The University of Oklahoma’s Executive Healthcare Training Academy is uniquely positioned to provide this training. The Academy was established to offer specialized training to those in healthcare organizations in leadership, strategy, and quality. It is focused on the needs of managers, board members, and physician administrators. We have faculty experts prepared to share their knowledge. They have extensive administrative, national, and international experience. Currently, the Academy offers certificates in leadership, strategic management, quality, and healthcare insurance.
The certificates can be customized to meet the specific needs of your managers. The duration of training will also depend on the course content and organizational needs. For example, the certificate in leadership is designed with five weeks of training in core materials. Moreover, our faculty will be familiar with the complexities and special needs of your organization to work with your personnel to customize and adapt the training for your organization. The programs will also be structured to integrate classroom learning into departmental operations. Attendees often will be grouped into teams that will implement practical projects in their respective departments. Completion of these projects will be a required component of the certificates. The combination of course instruction and applied projects produces sustained learning and results in positive organizational change.
Potential Attendees:
This certificates are designed for managers who seek to advance in their learning and managerial skills. Although the program components will be of benefit to any person with a position in management, the certificate programs generally are designed for middle and upper managers . The program is generally limited to 20 participants.
Leadership Certificate Program Content:
The Leadership Certificate Program consists of five weeks worth of course instruction spread across five months, followed by presentations of cumulative projects and a comprehensive examination in the sixth month. Each week of instruction will be followed by practical application of the principles learned in the respective departments of each team of participants. Teams of two to three individuals will develop practical projects in their respective departments. The intent is to improve the departments’ operations by implementing concepts from program materials. Participants will also be asked to teach various concepts they learn within their departments.
