The Vanderbilt Advantage
The Vanderbilt Master of Management in Health Care is a one-year program that equips health care professionals with the business fundamentals and decision-making skills to manage people, programs and processes in today’s dynamic health care environment. Students participate in core business courses one night each week, attend intensive health care industry-specific courses one weekend each month and work in teams on a health care strategy project throughout the program. The Vanderbilt MM Health Care is designed to provide managers, health care practitioners, and other executives the business knowledge and management skills to move beyond the practice of medicine to the strategic leadership of health care organizations.
Here are 11 key reasons why our students and alumni say the Master of Management in Health Care offers you a big advantage over other choices.
Like no other university, Vanderbilt combines a world-class business school, world-class medical center and world-class health care business community.
- Vanderbilt’s rigorous curriculum—built around a core foundation of management and leadership skills and intense dive into health care industry specifics—is carefully crafted for you to learn the rigor of business and how it applies to your role in health care.
- You will benefit from collaboration between Vanderbilt business faculty and executives from top-tier health care organizations, who work together to help you learn both the management and the clinical dimensions of issues that health care organizations deal with daily.
- Along with renowned professors in a full range of business disciplines, Vanderbilt’s health care business faculty also include distinguished researchers, a leading health care economist, one of the most knowledgeable experts in Congress on health care policy, the CEO of a major medical center and business executives who have started and led a broad array of health care companies.
- You’ll be among a class of diverse peers—selected from a broad range of health care organizations and professions, clinical specialties and areas of expertise—who can provide different health care and business perspectives. The diversity of experience in the classroom means you’ll also gain knowledge from your colleagues as well as the faculty, providing for an even richer learning experience.
- You will gain immediate and ongoing Return on Investment (ROI). Through our Apply-it-now! approach to learning, you can apply your new business knowledge and management skills immediately in your job to address real problems and opportunities.
- The Capstone Project gives you practical experience in applying your new knowledge. Throughout the program, you will work as part of a team, under close faculty supervision, to address a real business problem, opportunity or initiative for a health care organization (possibly your own sponsoring organization).
- The distinctive leadership development program will give you access to industry tools and diagnostics used by Fortune 500 executives. You will develop your strategic, problem-solving and interpersonal skills to help you succeed as a manager in health care organizations.
- Working in project teams throughout the management core courses and on the Capstone Project is great preparation for advancing as a leader in the health care business. You will quickly learn how to manage as part of a leadership team, attack problems from new angles and propel yourself into a leadership position in your organization.
- You are not just attending a training program. You will benefit from being part of a community and extensive professional network. Faculty, colleagues and alumni—business leaders, health care experts and entrepreneurs—will become part of your career network. Long after graduation, you can reach out to them for ideas and advice.
- Meet one night per week, one weekend per month, for one year. The unique schedule and convenient Nashville location let you learn without disrupting your job responsibilities and career progression.