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You benefit. Your employees benefit. That’s called a “win-win.”

Perhaps no industry today is evolving more quickly than healthcare. While opportunities for growth and improved patient care abound, competitive and regulatory realities, rapidly emerging technologies, financial imperatives, and human resource management present numerous challenges. And while physicians, nursing managers, and hospital administrators have clinical and subject-area expertise, they often lack the business acumen required to manage people, projects, or processes. The Vanderbilt Master of Management in Health Care (MMHC) is designed to provide these healthcare practitioners with the business knowledge, insights, skills, and connections to bridge the management gap. This unique program offers management and industry-specific courses as well as leadership development. It is a high quality educational experience that will not disrupt the day-to-day operations of your organization.

Supporting Organizations

• Hospitals and academic medical centers
• Clinics and health centers
• Payers and managed care organizations
• Large physician practices
• Other healthcare service providers

Participants

• Physicians
• Nursing managers
• Pharmacists
• Service line leaders
• Practice leaders
• Medical department directors
• Administrative and other professionals
• Other clinicians seeking career advancement

Equip your star employees with the tools to succeed in your organization. And reap immediate ROI.

At Vanderbilt, you will find business-relevant solutions for your healthcare professionals. By investing your high-performing employees, you will:

Gain Bench Strength

Students will gain a deep understanding of the business of healthcare, which they can apply immediately on the job. Your employees will emerge with new perspectives that enhance their individual and collective performance over the long term.

Develop Leaders

Through the Leadership Development Program, your employees will be given the opportunity to work with an executive coach, receive insight and instruction on leadership techniques and have access to best-of-class diagnostic tools used by Fortune 500 companies.

Advance Organizational Initiatives

Throughout the program, students work in teams on a Capstone Strategy Project where they apply business concepts to a real problem, initiative, or opportunity that your organization faces. With support from Vanderbilt faculty, the team will be able to determine solutions that rival those of highly paid consultants. 

Today’s healthcare organizations demand managers who comprehend the value and intricacies of practice yet have the confidence, expertise, and skills to build and manage people, programs, and organizational initiatives. You may be highly proficient and committed to excellence in patient care, administration, or another technical area, but chances are good that you haven’t had the time or resources to acquire the management tools to complement your current skills. You may also be seeking vision across more areas of your healthcare organization to help you lead at a higher level. Without interrupting your career, the Vanderbilt Master of Management in Health Care helps you do the following:

• Understand more fully your professional, management, and leadership capabilities
• Accelerate your career within your organization
• Develop deep management-level knowledge and understanding of all business disciplines through formal management curriculum
• Complement healthcare management training with interdisciplinary, team-based learning
• Make an immediate impact in your organization by applying new business concepts and skills
• Earn a master’s degree from Vanderbilt Owen Graduate School of Management, a top-ranked healthcare management business school—with course work developed by world-class faculty and recognized healthcare experts

From the moment you begin the Master of Management in Health Care program, you’ll return to your job with new skills and capabilities that will give you higher standing in your healthcare career and newfound credibility among the executive team. Your ability to apply classroom and project learning to real-time issues and opportunities on the job will further enhance your value and growth potential within your organization. The Vanderbilt Master of Management in Health Care will further increase your confidence and the knowledge that you have the healthcare management capabilities to set and achieve personal and organizational goals.