This is not a complete course listing. Courses subject to change.
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501 — Autism Spectrum Disorders (3 credits) |
Provides
educators a comprehensive overview of autism and related disorders.
Extensive literature review explores manifestations at varied developmental,
intellectual levels across the age span. Includes current theories
of casualty, Asperger’s syndrome and other pervasive developmental
disorders. Examines educator’s role in therapeutic interventions.
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502 — Behavioral Intervention for Students with Autism (3 credits) |
Provides
educators with comprehensive framework to develop and implement behaviorally
based instruction for children with autism spectrum disorders. Explores
variables that control learning in instructional environments. Students
will develop expertise in behavior analytic intervention strategies
that facilitate acquisition, maintenance and generalization of skills.
Involves a minimum of five hours per week of experiential work at
sites that provide services for children with autism.
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503 — Issues, Trends and Challenges in Nutrition (3 credits) |
This course is designed to have the nutritionist analyze and integrate current trends and issues in food and nutrition. Complementary and alternative forms of medical nutrition therapy, functional foods, and nutraceuticals will be evaluated. Case studies, problem-based learning scenarios, and guest lecturers will complement class work and provide students with the opportunity to examine the evidence regarding efficacy, safety, and cost of new products, as well as to apply this information in practical, professional settings.
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| HAS 505 — Human Sexuality: Attitudes (3 credits) |
Presents issues related to sexual mores and folkways in contemporary life, including premarital, co-marital and extramarital relations, homosexuality, bisexuality, heterosexuality, Tran sexuality, and paraphilias.
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| HAS 506 — Food and Nutrition Policies: Cultural, Social and Behavioral Aspects of Nutrition (3 credits) |
This course is designed to introduce health care professionals to existing food and nutrition policies, the types of data that these policies are based on, and the process by which these policies are developed. Students will develop skills to critically analyze the process and resulting policies. Students will also develop skills in developing new policies and securing funds for such projects.
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| HAS 507 — Fundamentals of Nutrition Policy and Management (3 credits) |
This course is designed for nutritionists who want to develop effective management skills in the food service and clinical areas. Case studies, problem-based learning scenarios, and role-playing scenarios will complement lectures and provide students with an opportunity to problem solve and apply information acquired. Personnel issues, cost containment, and management principles pertinent to clinical and food service functions will be discussed and applied to real-life situations. Safety and sanitation procedures will be taught with practical applications. The survey process and accreditation standards will be covered.
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| HAS 508 — Fundamentals of Genetic Counseling
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Examines the dynamics of the genetic counseling process. Focuses on principles of transmission of genetic disorders, medical aspects of representative genetic disorders, genetic testing, genetic counseling techniques, psychological and social responses to genetic disorders, and the ethical and legal issues raised by genetic knowledge and technology.
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| HAS 509 — Communication Disorders (3 credits) |
Describes the normal processes of language, speech, and hearing as a framework for developing an understanding of the nature of various types of communication disorders. Emphasizes causes, methods of assessment, and management of disorders and their impact.
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| HAS 510 — Community Resources for the Elderly: Implications for Health Practitioners (3 credits) |
Explores basic community service available to the elderly on the Federal, state and local levels, and examines new and innovative programs. Includes student interviews and site visits.
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| HAS 511 — Nutrition for the Aging (3 credits) |
This course is designed to encourage the student to explore the role of nutrition in the aging population as it interrelates with the medical, mental, and social conditions of the aging person. Recognizing the interdisciplinary need for a comprehensive plan for assessment, therapy, and continuing treatment, this course is planned to benefit all health care professionals in their work with adults and the aging population.
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| HAS 512 — The Biology of Aging (3 credits) |
A multidisciplinary course designed to focus attention on the biological changes, both anatomical and physiological, in the aging individual. Students will have an opportunity to explore in depth one area of special interest pertinent to the course.
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| HAS 513 — Health Care and Older People (3 credits) |
The course is designed to advance knowledge in the understanding of health care needs and issues of our aging society. Various health care concepts, including the administration of policies that have an impact on the older adult, will be explored.
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| HAS 515 — Measurement and Evaluation in Health Professions Education (3 credits) |
Explores issues of measurement and evaluation in educational institutions. Emphasizes approaches to testing, types of instruments, reliability, validity, and item analysis, and examines methods and approaches to evaluation of research.
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| HAS 516 — Health and the Aging Process (3 credits) |
An overview of information and issues pertinent to the physical and psychosocial health of aging Americans. Includes demographics, attitudes, physiological and psychological changes, health promotion, disease prevention, health care delivery settings, and ethical and legal issues.
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| HAS 518 — Women and Health Care (3 credits) |
This course provides an overview of women as users and providers of health care in the United States. Attention is given to women as active participants in their health care today as compared to historical times when women were encouraged to be passive. Throughout the course, case studies are introduced to demonstrate the contemporary utilization patterns of health care by women, including the use of managed care companies, women’s public health agencies and grassroots health organizations. In addition, a number of issues are addressed regarding the role of women in providing health care, specifically from a public health management perspective. The course includes examples and presentations of national and regional women’s health concerns, such as breast cancer, reproductive choices, heart disease, tobacco use, menopause-related issues, and domestic violence. Special populations are also discussed as they relate to women and health care, including adolescents, older women, homeless women, working women, caretaking women and middle-class uninsured women. Traditional and alternative health care strategies are offered as acceptable methods for meeting the growing and changing needs of women presently and in the future.
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| HAS 521 — Educational Administration for Health Professionals (3 credits) |
This course has three parts. First, we start by examining the life experiences of people with disabilities from a disability-studies perspective. This includes a study of the history, sociology, and psychology of disability. Second, we look at the interactions between PWD’s (person with disability) and health care providers in terms of miscommunication/prejudice, communication, and health promotion. Third, we explore the larger systems that can help or hinder health promotion. These issues include the structural barriers of poverty, lack of insurance, inaccessibility of services, architectural barriers, and lack of transportation. The course considers the particular health care challenges faced by women, ethnic, racial, and sexual minorities who have disabilities.
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| HAS 522 — Occupational Safety and Environmental Health (3 credits) |
Presents educational and training program administrative issues for health professions. Includes simulated decision-making situations, in-service education, emphasizes continuing professional education, leadership, curriculum, instruction, student selection, and budgeting.
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| HAS 523 — Occupational Safety and Environmental Health
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HAS 523 is designed to provide students with an in-depth understanding of occupational and environmental public health issues, including the effects of biological, chemical, and physical factors affecting the community’s health. Specific topics addressed are: lead poisoning, chemical toxins, asbestos, OSHA, EPA, child labor, infectious diseases, and ergonomics.
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| HAS 525 — Complementary and Alternative Medicine (3 credits) |
Examines the theory, philosophy and applications of complementary and alternative medicine within today’s health care system. Presents the many alternatives to traditional Western or allopathic medicine, and how these various models, systems and therapies impact on the delivery of health care in the United States. Addresses skills needed to best respond to consumers’ requests for information about these approaches. Students will examine the current body of research available on complementary and alternative medicine and be introduced to the vast array of resources available, the type of training involved in license/certification, and how to incorporate these approaches into their clinical practices. This course will combine lecture, readings, speakers, independent research and some expediential, hands-on work.
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| HAS 526 — Community Mental Health Programs (3 credits) |
This course provides a critical examination of the mental-health system as it has evolved in the United States. It will focus on the service-delivery system – how it has developed, what it is today, and where it is going. It will also consider the perspective of the mental-health consumer and family member – what it is like to live and cope with mental illness. Finally, the course will deal with the business of the mental-health service delivery system - how community mental-health organizations operate, how they are funded, who they employ, and how they are responding to the new “managed care” environment.
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| HAS 527 — Principles and Practices of Public & Community Health (3 credits) |
Provide students with the concepts and practices of public and community health by addressing both psychosocial and behavioral aspects of health problems and challenges. Students will identify public-health problems and design solutions (using case study format). Theories of social and behavioral change are introduced throughout the course and models of successful and unsuccessful public health programs are discussed in detail.
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| HAS 528 — Long Island's Community Health (3 credits) |
This course is designed to provide students with an overview of community health concerns of Long Island and to offer information and resources for addressing them. Specifically presented are those conditions which are associated with special populations such as: the Indians, bay men, homeless, migrant workers, rural residents, urban residents, and the uninsured middle-income residents. Attention is also given to community-health problems which have a high incidence on the Island, including breast cancer, Lyme disease, AIDS, and tuberculosis. In addition, there is a review of Long Island’s environmental-health problems with special emphasis on those associated with drinking and swimming water, agriculture, pesticides, and transportation. A description of the community health care delivery system is discussed and model programs and resources are presented.
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| HAS 529 — Community Health and Patient Education (3 credits) |
This course is designed to provide students with an overview of the significance and the role in which community and patient education has in the health care system. Attention is given to the development of competencies, which enable health professionals to include education as an essential aspect of the total care provided within various health organizations and settings.
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| HAS 530 — Health Care Operations (3 credits) |
Health Care Operations will address, in detail, the operations within health care institutions from the macro to the micro levels of management. The philosophy and significant occurrences affecting health care operations in the past, present and future will be analyzed. The divisions within health care operations (clinical, support and informational services, nursing, finance, and ambulatory care) will address the following aspects of management: financial forecasting and monitoring, staffing, employee productivity and morale, customer service, cost containment, decision making, total quality management, and managed care. Although emphasis will be placed on hospital operations, both nursing home and community health care center operations will be presented.
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| HAS 531 — Medical Care Organization (3 credits) |
Comprehensive overview of the U.S. system of medical care. Analyzes key issues, political and economic forces, and the problems of achieving the optimum goals of effectively and efficiently planned, managed, coordinated, and financed delivery of health services at all levels.
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| HAS 532 — Planning and Change in Health Care Organizations (3 credits) |
Explores the theory and techniques of health planning and organizational change for the actual or aspiring mid-level supervisor in health care.
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| HAS 533 — Communication and Group Dynamics (3 credits) |
This course provides a general introduction to the structure and dynamics of working groups and teams. The course is designed to familiarize students with the principles of interpersonal communication and group process and to develop, enhance, and strengthen skills in these areas. Students will participate in a variety of activities, including readings, case studies, role play, and written and oral presentations that illustrate relevant principles and provide practice in their application.
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| HAS 534 — Fundamentals of Health Care Management (3 credits) |
The course is designed to introduce the student to the practices and theories of health care management. An overview of management techniques and the process of human resource management will be addressed.
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| HAS 535 — Essentials of Health Care Finance (3 credits) |
The course is designed to introduce the student to those types of financial decisions that health care executives are most likely to be involved with, and to provide material that will help them understand the conceptual basis and mechanics of financial analysis and decision-making as it pertains to health care.
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| HAS 536 — Health Law (3 credits) |
The course will consist of lectures, assigned reading materials, analysis of reported health law cases, movies, and class discussions (including “breakout sessions” in which students will be presented with hypothetical cases for legal issue identification and problem solving analysis applying health law theories). At the completion of the course, it is hoped that the student will successfully identify health law issues and be able to identify a category of legal principles which would apply and provide a reasoned analysis of facts.
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| HAS 537 — Resource Management: Planning and Budgeting (3 credits) |
Health care organizations produce goods or services, and every production process requires inputs-natural resources, human resources, equipment, buildings, and the efforts and skills of labor. This course will examine the processes by which managers transform inputs into outputs within organizations. There will be a focus on health care and departmental budgeting and staffing, establishing quality and productivity standards, measuring whether the quality and productivity standards established have been attained, time management, and materials and inventory management. Students will be introduced to the concept of the Total Quality Management (TQM) and how it is implemented.
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| HAS 538 — Health Economics and Public Policy (3 credits) |
The contents of the course will be an in depth analysis of the effects of economic principles on health care and the effect of health policy and economic forces on the health care delivery system. Students will be taught to use these concepts to analyze health policy and improve the delivery of health care services. The effect of changes in market forces, manpower needs, formation of integrated delivery systems, health promotion initiatives and the impact of technology will be studied.
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| HAS 539 — Strategic Planning for Health Programs, Facilities and Networks (3 credits) |
The course is meant to convey to prospective and current health program managers the fundamentals of strategic thinking and planning, as well as the integration of these processes to fulfill their roles and responsibilities within a dynamic, changing medical marketplace where health care entities are undergoing a major paradigm shift. Medical marketplaces are changing from independent organizations that provide illness-focused episodic care to networks and systems of entities that address the health care needs of populations over entire lifetimes.
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| HAS 541 — Strategic Management in Health Care (3 credits) |
HAS 541 is designed for health services organization managers. This course provides exposure to various theories of organization and management in order to prepare the student to predict and explain organizational managerial actions and responses relative to public policy. The readings will focus the student on four major themes: organization/environment relationships, organization complexity, strategic management, and the significance of economic theory in understanding organization and systems behavior.
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| HAS 542 — The Political Setting of Public Health Policy and Management (3 credits) |
The course will examine the influences and effects of politics on the implementation of health policy at the federal, state, and local levels of government. Students will learn to analyze the roles and consequences of various governmental and social entities that are involved in policy implementation, their structures, processes, and the outcomes of selected public policies vis-à-vis legislative or administrative intent.
Prerequisites: HAS 534, HAS 537, or HAS 541.
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| HAS 543 — Health Planning and Policy (3 credits) |
This course is designed to provide students with an overview of the principles behind health policy making. Examples of local and national policies will be used as frameworks for analyzing specific policy formats. Students will learn to develop selective health policies using case studies throughout the course.
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| HAS 544 — Principles of Managed Care (3 credits) |
This course is designed to provide the student with an in-depth understanding of what managed care means in the context of the United States health care system. The history, components, and various organizational forms of managed care systems will be reviewed. Potential benefits, inherent limitations, along with the legal, social, and ethical implications of managed care as a health care delivery system will be discussed.
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| HAS 545 — Ethics and Health Care (3 credits) |
This course, designed for health care professionals (providers, educators, and managers), provides an overview of the ethics of health care in a rapidly changing society. Students learn how to approach ethical dilemmas using theoretical frameworks and decision-making processes. Ethical issues surrounding health care changes and public health policy, including distribution of resources and rationing of services, are explored. Through the use of case studies, students are introduced to other health topics such as euthanasia, reproduction, transplants, and genetics from an ethical perspective. This course also includes a review of classic cases in health care ethics and how they have shaped health policy. An overview of patient education and ethics and a discussion on the professional codes of ethics and standards are a part of this course.
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| HAS 547 — Grantsmanship in the Health Professions (3 credits) |
Introduces the grantsmanship process in both the federal and the private domains. Focuses on research, design, preparation, and submission of grant applications.
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| HAS 550 — Statistics and Data Analysis (3 credits) |
Instruction in the use of descriptive statistics, such as means, medians, standard deviations, and histograms will be covered. The course illustrates how inferences can be made from hypothesis testing and regression analysis. It includes an analysis of the validity and appropriateness of statistical techniques employed by researchers in their professional health fields. Students will be taught to use computer software to analyze data.
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| HAS 551 — Research Design and Proposal Writing (3 credits) |
To acquaint students with the research and proposal writing process in preparation for a practicum or research project, including: identifying a problem within an area of health care management, policy, and/or practice; formulating a research question or hypothesis; reviewing and critically appraising relevant literature; designing a realistic study and selecting appropriate scientific methods to answer the proposed question (or test the hypothesis); articulating the major strengths and limitations of the proposed study; considering expected results and potential impact of study findings on health care management, policy and/or practice; and communicating the proposal in a well-referenced and clearly written plan.
Prerequisite: HAS 550
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| HAS 554 — Marketing in Health Services (3 credits) |
This course provides an introductory explanation of marketing as a necessary component of the business of modern health care. The basic principles of marketing will be presented as will the application of these principles as they relate to health care and a managed-care environment.
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| HAS 555 — Essentials in Health Care Sales and Marketing (3 credits) |
This course is designed to introduce the student to the strategic selling methodology that looks at the health care buying decision. The focus is on the health care customer’s needs, both organizational and personal. The resultant analysis will allow the student to better determine how to add value to the health care customer’s organization and create a long-term business relationship that benefits all parties. The course will examine the key principles, methodologies, and strategies of marketing. We will expand these basic concepts to include an analysis of the health care value chain: the trading relationships between the producers (manufacturers) of health care products, the purchasers of those products (group purchasing organizations, wholesalers/distributors), and the health care providers (hospital customers) that are the end users of these products.
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| HAS 556 — Outcome Measures and Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) in Health Care (3 credits) |
The course will cover the conceptual and statistical development of outcome measures in a variety of health care settings. Coverage will include health care delivery situations and health policy considerations. CQI principles will be developed and the key role of outcome measures in such programs will be illustrated. Appropriate statistical methods will be introduced.
Prerequisite: HAS 550 or MBA 515 required.
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| HAS 557 — Planning and Evaluating Health Programs (3 credits) |
Prepares students to conduct needs assessments of various, diverse populations and to plan, implement, and evaluate programs to meet the needs. Plans include detailed goals, behavioral objectives, methods, resource and budget allocation including grant and contract considerations.
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| HAS 558 — Epidemiology and Health Policy (3 credits) |
Presents the concepts, principles and application of epidemiology through the use of public-health case studies. The students examine the distributions and determinants of disease, human morbidity and mortality, the characteristics of populations and the biological bases of health and disease.
Prerequisite: HAS 550.
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| HAS 559 — Health Behavior and Risk Reduction (3 credits) |
The impact of behavior on the health and well being of the public is profound and far reaching, as the majority of the leading causes of death and disability are largely attributable to behaviors that can be modified or prevented through changes in individual community and/or institutional/organizational behavior. This course is designed to help students acquire knowledge of theories and concepts to describe, explain, and predict health-related behaviors as well as behavioral responses to risk communication. Students learn the skills to apply this knowledge to evaluate the effectiveness of behavioral and health communication interventions; they will develop a health-related behavioral intervention project proposal that includes a plan to evaluate behavior change outcomes.
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| HAS 560 — Evaluation of Health Programs (3 credits) |
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The focus of this course is the purposes, conducts, and uses of program evaluations in community health. Basic principles and practices of program evaluation are covered, including identifying the goals of a community-health program, designing an evaluation plan that can determine if program goals are achieved, implementing an evaluation plan, interacting with stakeholders, and using the results of the program evaluation to improve performance. All students are required to design an evaluation component for the community-health program they developed in HAS 557: Planning and Evaluating Health Programs.
Prerequisite: HAS 557.
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| HAS 562 — Teaching Strategies (3 credits) |
Review basic teaching skills such as development of behavioral objectives, planning content, test development, standardized tests, designing and using audio-visuals, computers, learning packages, etc. Various teaching strategies (lecture, laboratory, clinical, seminar, workshop, demonstration, and patient simulation formats) are discussed and tried by students. Requires development of an individual final project in teaching to be presented, discussed, and evaluated in class.
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| HAS 563 — Computer Case Studies in Health Care Management (3 credits) |
Case management class using personal computer applications to assist problem solving in health care management.
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| HAS 564 — Health Information and Communications Systems (3 credits) |
This course acquaints students with the types of information systems available in health care and their applications to health care delivery. It includes an overview of various health care networks, patient-centered information systems, and imaging systems. Also presented is a review of system platforms, electronic medical records, and computer assisted instruction. Students discuss the integration of health information systems with communication systems, such as e-mail, fax, pagers, and wireless telephones. Through the use of classroom demonstrations and site visits, students gain hands-on experience with several health-related information and communications systems.
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| HAS 568 — HIV/AIDS: A Continuing Societal and Medical Challenge (3 credits) |
The social, psychological, and medical issues of the HIV/AIDS epidemic will be examined in relation to the concerns of health care professionals and educators. Throughout the course, students will have opportunities to explore and assess how their personal values and attitudes may impact on their delivery of health care and/or educational programs.
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| HAS 570 — Business Aspects of Managed Care (3 credits) |
The course is designed to introduce the student to and expand on their knowledge base as it relates to the business and financial aspects of the managed care delivery system. Trends in the financing of health care will be explored, as well as the practical application of developing and writing a formal business plan.
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| HAS 571 — Issues in Health Care Management (3 credits) |
The course is designed to introduce the student to the current trends in the United States health care system, including trends in medical-legal issues, labor relations, cost accounting, and managed care. Models of progressive programs and health care delivery systems will be reviewed and discussed.
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| HAS 572 — Ambulatory Care (3 credits) |
The course is designed to familiarize the student and develop their knowledge base as it relates to the areas of ambulatory care administration. National and local trends will be identified, as well as practical applications needed to administer outpatient care programs and facilities.
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| HAS 574 — Group Practice Management (3 credits) |
The course is designed to introduce the student to the practices and theories of group/physician practice management. It will provide the students with a fundamental understanding of the financial and regulatory issues that influence today’s medical practice. Insight into issues such as leadership, operations, compensation, and clinical productivity will be reviewed.
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| HAS 575 — Long-Term Care (3 credits) |
Enhances the student’s understanding of health care options for the elderly, the existing system of long-term care delivery, and the administrative aspects of operating a nursing home. The course will include actual exposure to clinical and operational departments in a nursing home and their role in the interdisciplinary process. It will also include a review of the rules and regulations governing nursing homes in New York State and the financial implications and reimbursement methodologies that impact upon them.
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| HAS 576 — Workplace 2010 (3 credits) |
This course provides an overview of the issues affecting the American workplace in the year 2010 and beyond. These issues will then be discussed in the context of the health care environment as students learn how to forecast and plan for changes in the industry and their particular workplaces. Issues of technological advances, diversity, quality improvement, customer service, and organizational change will be explored. The course will emphasize the student’s professional development by focusing on the competencies and attitudinal changes necessary to plan for his/her own career success and contribute to the success of their organization.
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| HAS 577 — e-Health Care, e-Commerce, and e-Care (3 credits) |
This course is designed to introduce students to the e-revolution and its impact on health care. Topics include e-communications to e-communities to e-commerce and e-care, new developments and e-services. This course will revisit the traditional models of health care delivery/disease management and introduce students to the evolution of e-care models. Students will learn how to put the Web to work in health care organizations, hospitals, doctors’ offices and pharmaceutical companies. E-business strategies, planning and development, along with e-health and law concepts will also be addressed.
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| HAS 578 — Leadership in Health Care (3 credits) |
The organization of the future requires more than traditional management to remain successful and competitive in our rapidly changing world. This course will focus on the future role of the leader in the emerging society of organizations, while drawing on lessons learned from the past, in both theory and practice. The impact of leadership on the future quality of our lives, our businesses, our learning institutions, and society in general will be examined. Students will learn from first-hand accounts of leaders’ experiences and the different challenges facing private, public, and non-profit organizations. The difference between management skills and leadership skills will be defined as well as strategies for balancing and developing each skill set.
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| HAS 579 — Advanced Seminar in Health Policy (3 credits) |
This seminar is designed to provide students with an in-depth analysis of principles of health policy making. The goal of the session is a completed health policy statement/paper that is deliverable to the appropriate policy-maker/legislator. Students will have continued round-table discussions of general public health topics and the development of their own health policy project.
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| HAS 580 — International Seminar (3 credits) |
International Health compares United States health care systems with those in another country. Includes visits to health facilities, educational institutions, and agencies. Focuses on health promotion and disease prevention in that country as compared to United States’ programs. Lectures and seminars by SHTM faculty and faculty of participating foreign universities are part of this course.
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| HAS 582 — Seminar in Curriculum Design (3 credits) |
Discusses problems and processes of curriculum design in the health fields. Includes developing a rationale for curriculum design, components and levels of educational design, implementation problems, and evaluation for curriculum improvement.
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| HAS 583 — Scientific Writing for Thesis and Publication (3 credits) |
Designed to give the advanced student (1) the basic skills and information to plan, research, and execute the writing of a scientific abstract, thesis outline, and research proposal; and (2) develop current literature and raw data into a form for written presentation to support or refute a hypothesis. Focuses on scholarly writing and deductive logic using scientific data (whether from the literature or the research data book) to support an argument.
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| HAS 584 — Practicum: Community Health Education (3 credits) |
Allows student to test, under supervised circumstances, his or her ability to apply knowledge learned in courses to the health care field.
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| HAS 586 — Practicum: Health Professions Management (1 – 6 credits) |
Practicum assignment for candidates in the management concentration of the program. Allows student to apply theory learned, functioning as a supervisor in the practice of an allied health profession.
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| HAS 588 — Practicum: Health Policy (1 – 6 credits) |
Allows student to apply and demonstrate knowledge of research methodology by either conducting or participating in a major research effort under the supervision of an experienced researcher.
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| HAS 590 — Independent Study (1 – 6 credits) |
Independent Study proposals in health management, gerontology, nutrition, health policy or related areas must be developed with a faculty advisor according to the directions. Formal application to do an Independent Study project must be submitted three weeks prior to the semester beginning and must be approved by your faculty advisor.
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| HAS 591 — Independent Readings (1 – 6 credits) |
Supplementary specialized readings for graduate students under faculty supervision; topics may include, but are not limited to: nutrition, gerontology, health policy, health economics, health care management, and health care ethics. Approval must be obtained from the Research and Directed Study Committee of the School of Health Technology and Management prior to registration.
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| HAS 598 — Thesis Seminar (3 credits) |
Throughout this course, the student will work with the thesis committee to complete the research project.
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| HAS 599 — Thesis Supervision (1 – 4 credits) |
Course for students who want to complete a thesis in partial fulfillment of the degree requirements. A formal description of the study (Thesis Proposal) and the choice of participants in the thesis committee must be approved prior to registration. The student must work with a graduate advisor to develop a thesis proposal. This course encompasses developing, implementing, and writing the graduate thesis. The thesis proposal must be submitted before the semester registration begins.
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