Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:

1. Demonstrate clear and concise written and oral communication.

2. Formulate and solve algebraic expressions and equations
related to health policy analysis.

3. Articulate the use of descriptive statistics in health policy
analysis and management decision-making.

4. Explain how fundamental principles of microeconomics and
macroeconomics affect the United States health care system.

5. Apply each step of the scientific method of research to a
health policy or management-related problem: problem definition,
hypothesis testing, explanation, prediction, and theory 
construction.

6. Prepare, explain, and analyze health care organization
financial statements using fundamental accounting and financial
principles.

7. Describe the five major functions of management (planning,
organizing, staffing, directing, and controlling) and current
management theories. 

8. Articulate principles for effective team-based learning and
problem-solving.

9. Describe the basic tenets of systems thinking and apply tenets
to a health policy or management decision-making dilemma.

Topics:

1. Professional Communication Skills Development

2. Basic Algebraic Problem Analysis

3. Essential Principles of Microeconomics and Macroeconomics

4. Introduction to Research Methods

5. Accounting Terminology and Financial Statement Analysis

6. Overview of Management Theory and Functions

7. Primer on Team-based Learning

8. Introduction to Systems Thinking

All students are responsible for maintaining the highest
standards of honesty and integrity in every phase of their
academic careers. The penalties for academic dishonesty are
severe, and ignorance is not an acceptable defense.

Academic honesty means performing all academic work without
plagiarizing, cheating, lying, tampering, stealing, receiving
assistance from any other person, or using any source of
information that is not common knowledge.