The Tuck School of Business this week announced that it has launched a new degree program with the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice (TDI) aimed at helping working managers and professionals in health care organizations approach challenges in a changing health care landscape using management strategy coupled with a scientific approach.
Applications are now being accepted for the new Master of Health Care Delivery Science (MHCDS) program, an 18-month course of study created to give health care industry leaders new tools to effect changes in their field.
“Bending the value curve in health care is essential for the health of this country’s people and the economy,” said Paul Danos, dean of the Tuck School of Business. “This program combines the intellectual capital in innovation, leadership and change management from two world-class faculties and focuses it on educating the leaders who will have to make this transformation work.”
The new MHCDS interdisciplinary degree program was launched by Dartmouth College President Dr. Jim Yong Kim. It will combine Tuck’s expertise in strategy and how to create and execute change with TDI’s pioneering research in health care pattern and practice, delivery innovation and payment models.
“Reform of the existing health care system has been desperately needed,” Dr. James N. Weinstein, director of TDI, said in a statement. “The challenge for those of us running systems today is to transform our institutions to succeed in this new world by focusing on how to provide high-value, high quality care, while lowering the costs of delivering that care.”
To start, Dartmouth hopes to enroll 50 students in the new joint degree program. To provide participants with maximum flexibility, the program will include a combination of residential classes, online distance learning and on-site projects giving students an opportunity to apply the tools they are learning in the program to initiatives at their home institutions.
“Until now, management courses available to health care leaders looked at standard business practices across a range of industries,” Bob Hansen, senior associate dean at Tuck and faculty co-director of the MHCDS program, said in a statement. “The Master of Health Care Delivery Science program recognizes the complexity of the U.S. health care system and the unique challenges it presents for providers, payers, employers and those who develop and implement health care policy.”
The MHCDS program targets individuals or teams of health care executives and/or clinicians, as well as professionals in health-related fields such as government, insurance, information technology, human resources and consulting.
For more details and application information about the Master of Health Care Delivery Science, click here.
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