Healthcare Management Track

Goals, Objectives, & Outcome

Goals

This 24-month track will support residents & fellows to gain the knowledge, skills, and methods necessary to: (a) become leaders in healthcare administration; and (b) prepare them for careers that incorporate leadership and administrative responsibilities.

The EHM track’s objectives include providing resident physicians with interests in healthcare management a multifaceted training to develop fluency in healthcare management sciences, strengthen leadership skills, and apply data-driven methodologies to promote innovation in our health care delivery system.

Objectives

It is the goal of Emory’s Healthcare Management Residency Track to develop physician leaders that will:

1. Demonstrate best practices in health systems and management in the areas of clinical excellence, leadership skills, and fluency in healthcare management sciences 
2. Demonstrate scholarship in the design, implementation, and evaluation of innovative healthcare delivery programs.
3. By the end of the final year, resident will be able to co-lead a case discussion in health policy or management.

Outcome

Upon completion of the track, residents will be awarded a certificate of distinction in Healthcare Management from Emory University School of Medicine.

Components

• In-Depth Healthcare System Exposure: residents will have a hospital site focus, so
  that they may serve as committee members, work on systems-level projects and actively
  participate in the ‘inner workings’ and processes that help an individual hospital or
  healthcare system function on a day-to-day basis to forge longitudinal success
• Monthly lecture series: residents will participate in evening and lunchtime lecture
  series in topics such as health insurance, management, operations, and innovation.
  Series topics can be accessed through viewing the course syllabus.
• Mentorship and career development: residents will be paired with a senior leader
  mentor to provide one-on-one career guidance and development to help residents
  successfully prepare for a dual career in clinical medicine and healthcare management,
  policy, or innovation.
• Longitudinal innovation/capstone project: Innovation/capstone projects will be
  conducted longitudinally over two years during dedicated EHM elective blocks, with
  some work in between.
  • Residents will identify a project mentor and submit an elective proposal with an
    overview of the project at least 2 months prior to the elective to the course
    director(s) and program coordinator(s).
  • Projects will be presented at the annual EHM graduation dinner to hospital
    leadership, and should also be presented at one or more of the following
    conferences: resident noon conference, department or hospital grand rounds, any
    regional or national conference.
• Emory Healthcare Quality Academy Certification: EHM residents will participate in a 12-day (or 2-day) quality improvement training series
• Teaching: Senior pathway members will participate in co-leading one of the case discussions in health policy and management.

Track Requirement(s):

• Competitive Application: Personal Statement, Program Director Letter of Support (including Program commitment to focus >70% of the trainee’s rotations at the ‘focus site’ hospital), and Interview(s)
• 80% monthly curricular series attendance
• Focus within a single healthcare institution (e.g., EUH-focus, Grady focus, etc.), with >70% of clinical rotations based at the focus institution over the 2-year track (i.e., 8-9 months per year of rotations scheduled at the designated hospital site(s) over the 2 years)
• Longitudinal Innovation/Capstone Project

Eligibility & General Requirements

Eligibility

Application to the Healthcare Management Residency Track is open to all rising PGY2 or higher residents or fellows in good standing with their graduate medical education training program.

• Residents and fellows apply to the track 6 months prior to track entry, and complete the track over the following 2 academic years of residency.
• A limited number of Residents/Fellows will be selected based on a competitive application process, including personal statement, Program Director letter of support, and interviews.

General Requirements

• Residents/Fellows in the pathway should anticipate using at least 4 weeks of elective time (distributed over 2 years) to complete pathway requirements.
• Residents/Fellows must remain in good standing with the residency/fellowship program.
• Residents/Fellows must maintain regular attendance at monthly lecture series.
• Residents/Fellows will complete a longitudinal innovation project. This work must be shared through abstract/poster presentations at conferences and/or publications in academic journals. Residents/Fellows will have the opportunity to share their work to hospital leadership at our annual graduation event.
• Residents/Fellows may elect to participate in the 12-day EHC Quality Academy, and at minimum must participate in the 2-day EHC Quality Academy
• Residents/Fellows will participate in one or more leadership and communication style self-assessments (e.g. Myers-Briggs, Birkman, others)
• Residents/Fellows must ensure to adhere to residency work-hour policies. 

Proposed Topics

YEAR 1

• Introduction to EHM Program – Kickoff

• Health Policy Session 1: Introduction to U.S. Health Insurance

• Health Policy Session 2: Healthcare Payment Model Case: case co-facilitated by EHM senior member

• Emory WHSC, Emory Healthcare and TEC Organization Charts and Vision

• Emory Health Competitive Strategy

• Emory Healthcare Quality Academy training (12-day course, recommended; 2-day course at minimum)

• Understanding your leadership style: personality tests and discussion.

• Transitions of Care – understanding the care continuum

YEAR 2

• Health Policy Session 3: Integration and Consolidation in Healthcare – Systems Transformation

• Value-based Care in the Post-ACA Era

• Patient Centered Medical Home Model

• Hospital Operations Management

• Understanding the Patient Experience

• Health Information and Technology in the Era of Big Data

• Health Innovation Series – speaker series from industry and academic experts

Application Process

The application must include the following components:

• A personal statement describing why you would like to participate in the residency track, your interest in Healthcare Management, your expected goals and outcomes.  The personal statement should be limited to no more than 1 page.
• A brief letter of support from the Program Director. A letter of support from the applicant's program director must be included as part of the application process.  The letter should indicate support for the resident's participation in the Healthcare Management track including Program commitment to focus >70% of the trainee’s rotations at the ‘focus site’ hospital.
• Applicants will also be expected to attend an interview.

Each year, please submit your application to Dr. Sarah DeCaro, MD no later than February 15 for consideration in the cohort starting in July. 

• Track Announcement

• Topics to Be Covered