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MS PHM EXEC - Executive Population Health Management (MS)

Program Overview

Department(s)

SOPH-Exec. MS Population Health Management (Academic_Department)

Program Level

ACADEMIC_LEVEL_GRADUATE

Program Code

MS PHM EXEC

Learning Outcomes

Name

The program has a strong focus on applied learning. Students will gain knowledge and skills in value-based health care delivery, including practice redesign, team-based models of care, incentive payment models, improving health care quality and safety, working with accountable care organizations, implementing population health management approaches, adopting appropriate health information technology, effectively leveraging data to drive health care improvement, maximizing community assets to address social determinants, and much more.

Requisites

To graduate, students must complete a population health capstone project. This will entail developing and implementing a project to address one or more dimensions of the Quadruple Aim, i.e., improve the patient experience, improve health outcomes, improve the provider experience, or reduce health care costs, in a specified setting.

Weekend Seminars

Students must attend 3 seminars offered throughout the year, and the time commitment estimate is 2-3 days each weekend

****May be required to attend a conference at your own cost

Plan of Study

Year 1 – Fall
PHS 700	Essentials of Population Health Science	3
PHS 731	Social Determinants of Health	3
PHS 703	Epidemiology I	3
TOTAL TERM HOURS		9
Year 1 – Spring
PHS 711	Healthcare Quality and Safety	3
PHS 709	Population Health Management	3
PHS 710	Lifestyle Medicine and Health Coaching	3
PHS 720	Population Health Informatics and Analytics	3
TOTAL TERM HOURS		12
Year 2 – Summer
PHS 705	Value-based Health Care Delivery and Payment Models	3
PHS 797	Population Health Capstone	6
TOTAL TERM HOURS		9

*Students may be allowed to substitute one three-credit hour course (except the capstone) with another course offered by the department of population health science if they have taken an equivalent course as approved by the program director.