Management Curriculum
It is imperative in health care today that academic clinicians have a solid understanding of administrative and management issues. Whether one chooses a career in education or research, acquiring necessary management and leadership skills will allow you to organize yourself, successfully administer education and research programs, run an office, or manage a business. For this reason, all fellows participate in a series of management and leadership seminars sponsored by the Section of Geriatric Medicine.
In addition to attending various lectures throughout the year on such topics as time management, running a meeting, and “personality types”, fellows participate in an intense, semester-long management and leadership course. The first thirteen sessions are a combination of didactic and interactive formats on key management issues such as:
- Basic management principles
- Accounting
- How organizations function
- Human resource management (e.g., identifying, recruiting and hiring personnel) •Planning
- Marketing strategies
There are eight additional sessions devoted to solving problems of a hypothetical health center, using skills learned in the earlier seminars. These latter sessions are highly interactive where the fellows will initiate real managerial changes in a case format. For example, the fellows will have to come up with a proposed implementation plan for a directive to add an AIDS clinic to the internal medicine practice, including budget, personnel, marketing, etc. All sessions are led by experts in the field of management from a variety of disciplines including law, business, medicine, and public health.
Fellows have found this course extremely helpful, regardless of their career path. The skills learned are applicable to all professionals who have leadership roles in their job or organization. Some fellows even decide to take additional management courses in the School of Public Health. This is an option through the Fellowship’s masters program.
