Health Care Practicum I

3.0 credits

This course provides students with hands-on experience with a medical management project. It develops skills in identifying a problem, working with data, finding possible solutions and delivering recommendations, all within a fixed time frame. Students learn to produce analysis, but also have to argue persuasively that the recommendations based on the analysis are valuable and should be implemented. Projects require that students not only apply analyses learned in the classroom, but also that they argue persuasively that the recommendations based on the analyses are valuable and should be implemented. Teams of three to four students are responsible for the individual projects, and meet with the instructor individually. The organizations submitting projects must be willing to spend time with students and to provide appropriate data.