Course variations

Course summary

This degree is a post-professional program designed for master’s or doctorate prepared healthcare professionals and is offered through blending distance and residential education. The program aims to develop and enhance the professional skills needed to provide competent leadership in today’s challenging healthcare systems. The program focuses on building proficiencies in critical analysis and evaluation of complex issues that affect the health of society. This advanced degree prepares graduates to better understand and effectively manage the ongoing challenges of access, cost, and quality in healthcare. The program facilitates the development of resolution-oriented practices to better analyze, plan, implement, and evaluate proposed solutions to health system dilemmas. The D.H.Sc. program will provide present healthcare professionals with the knowledge and skills to excel in project management, decision-making, organizational management, establishing evidence-based standards, and gaining the competencies to apply research to their professional practice.

Program modules

The modules are DHS 600: Writing for Health Professionals 3, DHS 601: Principles of Management and Decision Analysis 3, DHS 602: Risk Management for Health Professionals 3, DHS 603: Healthcare Information Systems 3, DHS 701: Healthcare Delivery Systems 3, DHS 702: Health Administration Law and Ethics 3, DHS 703: Population Health and Patient-Centered Care 3, DHS 801: Healthcare Outcomes 3, DHS 802: Research Methods, Design, and Analysis 3, DHS 803: Evidence-Based Practice 3, DHS 900: Winter Institute Health Professionals Role in Health Promotion with a one week onsite Winter Institute, Concentration Areas: Global Health: DHS 811: Global Health Issues 3, DHS 812: Globalization and World Politics 3,DHS 813: Global Health Ethics 3, Leadership and Organizational Behavior: DHS 821: Trends and Issues in Leadership 3, DHS 822: Health Policy Development and Analysis 3, DHS 823: Organizational Behavior 3, Advanced Physician Assistant Studies: DHS 831: The PA Entrepreneur: Practice Owner/Operator 3, DHS 832: Genetics in Clinical Medicine 3, DHS 833: Applied Pharmacotherapeutics and Behavioral Change 3, Applied Research Project: DHS 901: Proposal Development 5, DHS 902: Literature Review and Sampling Methodology 5, DHS 903: Data Collection 5, DHS 904: Data Analysis 5, DHS 905: Dissemination - Publishable Paper 5.

Entry requirement for international students

Students should have earned a master’s or doctorate degree from a regionally accredited institution, or from a non-U.S. university with a minimum overall graduate cumulative GPA of 3.0 on a 4.0 scale. International students must have obtained a minimum TOEFL score of 550 on the paper based test, 213 on the computer based test and 80 on the internet based test.

Qualification

Doctoral

Awarding body

A T Still University Arizona School of Health Sciences

Department name

A T Still University Arizona School of Health Sciences