Yale School of Management - MD/MBA Program

Healthcare Management and Related Electives
at the Yale School of Management

MGT 574 Management of Quality (2 units)

This course focuses on the most useful approaches to quality in delivering services and goods, and emphasizes both managerial issues and statistical methods.We will make use of a service quality framework that consists of defining quality, determining customer needs, assessing customer satisfaction, and developing quality measures and standards. Understanding and reducing variability is a fundamental theme. The course will present the basic experimental design principles and show how they can be applied to a wide range of problems, including improving education and evaluating medical treatments. The course builds on the statistical foundations of the data analysis core courses, and integrates concepts from operations, organizational behavior, and marketing. Prerequisite: Data Analysis I and II. (Professor Arthur Swersey)

MGT 611 Policy Modeling (4 units)

Building on earlier coursework in quantitative analysis and statistics, Policy Modeling provides an operational framework for exploring the costs and benefits of public policy decisions. The techniques employed include "back of the envelope" probabilistic models, Markov processes, queuing theory, and linear/integer programming. With an eye toward making better decisions, these techniques are applied to a number of important policy problems.
Prerequisites: Decision Analysis and Game Theory, Data Analysis and Statistics, or a demonstrated proficiency in quantitative methods. (Professor Edward Kaplan)

MGT 661/LAW 20304 Health Law & Policy (4 units)

This course will provide a general introduction to health law, policy, politics, and economics. Topics will include, among others, access to healthcare, patients’ rights, the meaning and effects of "managed care," the relationship of healthcare to public health, and selected issues in bioethics. Treatment of these issues in foreign healthcare systems will be analyzed to provide perspective on domestic issues. Examination with a limited paper option. (Professor Theodore Marmor)

MGT 691 Field Studies in Healthcare Management (4 units)

This course begins with didactic sessions, using the case approach to learning. The students are then placed, in teams of three to five, in actual healthcare settings where they will have a well-defined, brief, consultation engagement culminating in a deliverable report. Faculty mentors will advise the students as they work on their project. The final report and the evaluation by the client will determine the grade.
Permission of instructor required. (Professor Michael Apkon)

MGT 698 Healthcare Finance and Health Economics (4 units)

The course teaches the students the critical skills in analyzing and working within the healthcare industry. The first portion of the course focuses on the economic and financial drivers of the domestic healthcare system, including private and public financing and delivery models. In the latter portion of the course, the students learn about current issues of importance to this $1.4 trillion dollar industry. The course is part didactic, part seminar style, with team projects and presentations as a major component of the grade. Undergraduates enrolled only with the permission of the instructor. (Professor Howard Forman)

MGT 699 Healthcare Leadership Seminar. 4 units.

This course, open only to joint degree candidates of the School of Medicine, exposes the students to current leaders in healthcare, with a particular emphasis on those leaders who are, or have been, active clinicians. The students come prepared to discuss the key elements in the speakers’ careers, including their research, when appropriate. This course meets throughout the year, though credit is earned only in the last semester of the joint degree program. (Professor Howard Forman)