| Helzberg School of Management
DO/MBA Dual Degree
Program Benefits
The
Kansas City University of Medicine and Biosciences'
DO/MBA
Dual Degree
successfully integrates two professional curricula.
Dual-degree students complete both degrees “on
time” and
walk across the
graduation stage with other members of their KCUMB class, receiving both their
Doctor
of Osteopathic Medicine degree and a Rockhurst MBA diploma.
Other important benefits of this new MBA degree are:
-
Emphasis on practical skills development.
- Extensive
use of contemporary health care examples, exercises,
simulations, and live case studies.
- Frequent
interaction with practicing Kansas City health
care professionals as guest presenters and
hosts for field visits.
- Continuous access to
online course materials & internet
search engines.
- Incremental development of a comprehensive
business plan over three semesters, culminating
in each student’s presentation of their
business plan to a bank loan
officer as if seeking funds for a new medical practice.
Graduates with a Rockhurst
MBA in Health Care Leadership will be able
to:
- Pursue best business practices & employ
leadership techniques that contribute to
high quality patient care.
- Apply appropriate
considerations of legality, ethicality, and
social responsibility to strategy formulation
and business operations.
- Effectively use the “language of business,” and
understand how business practices and processes
work in concert to create efficient managerial
systems.
- Understand how organizations and health systems function, and explore new
governance models and best teamwork paradigms from a wide variety of industries.
- Formulate and implement a vision, mission, and business strategy in a way
that fosters common purpose and teamwork.
- Identify & analyze issues; formulate & communicate
plans; apply appropriate resources to accomplish
tasks.
- Set up a practice with the flexibility to meet change and to take advantage
of opportunities.
- Lead organizations to attract and retain
excellent staff in a highly competitive job market;
understand both legal and cutting-edge employment
issues/concerns.
- Use technology, resources, and information in a way that maximizes efficiency
and improves effectiveness.
- Apply self-management skills to practice medicine and manage organizations
with insight, grace, and the ability to balance personal needs with the greater
good of stakeholders.
KCUMB alumni and other working
professionals may take Health Care Leadership
courses on a space available basis in pursuit
of a Rockhurst MBA with concentration in
Health Care Leadership. |
