About the Programme
Rapid changes in healthcare systems require new professionals with a deep understanding of health and healthcare issues and a wide spectrum of skills to promote and manage changes at the organizational and policy level.
MIHMEP intends to train a new cadre of professionals by providing an interdisciplinary and international program specifically focused on healthcare management and policy.
Through an itinerary comprising 9 months of classroom activities and a 3 month field project, participants will develop theoretical and practical skills in management, economic analysis, policy analysis and formulation, and epidemiology.
The program is designed to ensure that participants:
- fully comprehend and learn to lead the important new developments occurring in health-related industries (pharmaceutical, biotech, medical device companies);
- achieve substantial skills and competencies in the management of healthcare organizations;
- gain experience in applying qualitative and quantitative methods to promote and manage change at the organizational and policy level;
- understand the epidemiological factors and the political, economic and social context of healthcare management from an international perspective;
- understand the political process and strategy which drive the international health arena
The challenging learning experience is enriched with intensive cultural exchange between participants coming from variety of backgrounds and from different parts of the world.
Structure and Calendar
The program sees three terms when students take compulsory and optional courses, and ends with a fourth term, during which students participate in an internship within a healthcare organization, institution or company in Italy or abroad.
MIHMEP Colloquium (September 20st - September 24th 2010)
This is an introductory one-week course, which has two main objectives:
- to orient incoming students to the MIHMEP program and to living in Milan;
- to provide students with practice in public speaking, team building and professional writing through some interactive workshops.
First term (September 27th - December 17th 2010)
During the first term students are required to take the following 6 courses:
- Epidemiology
- Financial Accounting *
- Health Care Systems & Policy
- Health Economics
- Organizational Behaviour *
- Quantitative Methods *
Second term (January 10th - March 31st, 2011)
The second term starts after the winter break. Students are expected to attend 4 compulsory courses:
- Cost Accounting *
- E-Health
- Economic Evaluation of Health Care Programs
- Organizational Design in Health Care
Third term (April 1st - May 27th, 2011)
Students must choose 6 optional courses from the following list:
- Decision Analysis in Health Care
- Global Strategies for Health
- Health Economics for the Medical Device Sector
- Health Care Management and Policy in Developing Countries
- Issues in Public Health
- Management Control & Performance Measurement
- Marketing in Health Care Organizations
- Pharmaceutical Policy and Management
- Quality Management and Operations in Health Care Organizations
- Regulation, Management and Entrepreneurship in the Biotech Sector
* Please note that these courses will be jointly offered to MIHMEP and MPM (Master of Public Management) students.
Fourth term (June 1st - September 15th, 2011)
Internship
Projects
During the fourth term, students participate in an internship within a healthcare organization or a company in Italy or abroad. The projects are carried out over a period of 12 weeks and require full-time commitment. During the internship, students are supervised by two tutors: one from the host organization and the other from the MIHMEP faculty. Near the end of the first term, an Internship Day is organized in order for MIHMEP students to meet field project providers and to present internship options.
Providers
Internships may be performed in pharmaceutical/medical device companies, national and regional health authorities, hospitals, health insurance organizations, NGOs, supranational organizations, research centres and consulting companies. All represent potential employing organizations for MIHMEP students. At the end of the program, students will receive advice concerning job placement and the best job options available both in Italy and abroad.
Internship Providers for previous editions
AMGEN (Italy)
Aga Khan Health Service ( Tanzania)
Analytica International (Germany)
APS Healthcare Inc (USA)
Astrazeneca (Italy)
Aispo (Italy)
Baxter (Italy)
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Bioxell (Italy)
bWell International In.c (USA)
Center for Strategic Health Studies, Ministry of Health Syria (Syria)
Chiesi Farmaceutici (Italy)
Council on Accreditation (USA)
COOPI (Aden, Yemen)
Departamento de Salud (Puerto Rico)
Department of Health (London, UK)
Dompé (Italy)
East London & City Mental Health NHS Trust (UK)
EMEA (UK)
Emergency (Italy)
European Health Management Association (Belgium)
Farmindustria (Italy)
First Advantage (USA)
Freedom from Hunger (Uganda)
Fondazione Ivo De Carneri (Italy)
General Hospital of Naussa (Greece)
Georgetown Kennedy School of Bioethics (USA)
Glaxo SmithKline (Italy)
Global Healthcare Awareness Committee (USA)
Gruenenthal (Germany)
Harvard School of Public Health (USA)
HLSP Consulting (UK)
HOPE – European Hospital and Healthcare Federation (Belgium)
Hospital Daniel Bracamonte (Bolivia)
Hospital “Luigi Sacco” (Italy)
Hospital San Paolo (Italy)
Hospital San Raffaele (Italy)
Hospital Valduce (Italy)
Humanitas Private Hospital (Italy)
Institute of Community & Public Health (Palestine)
John Hopkins International (USA)
La Sapienza University (Italy)
Lumenos Consultancy (USA)
Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Italy)
MASI research Consultants (USA)
MEDISS (Milan, Italy)
Medtronic (Italy)
Metropolitan Hospital (Greece)
National Chengdu Center for Safety Evaluation of Traditional Chinese Medicine (China)
Newmed (Italy)
Novartis Pharma (Italy, Switzerland)
Oracle (Italy)
Policlinico “A. Gemelli” (Italy)
Portsmouth Hospitals NHS trust (UK)
Programma de Cooperação Socio-Sanitario (Mozambico)
Pfizer GmbH (Germany, Italy)
RAS (Italy)
Rhon-Klinikum (Germany)
Roche Diagnostics, (Switzerland)
Rotary Club (Italy)
Sentrix Global Health Communications Srl (Italy)
Sony Business Europe (Greece)
SGC Consulting (Italy)
Schering-Plough (Italy)
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services NGO (USA)
Sudler & Hennessey (Italy)
Sunnybrook Campus (Canada)
Telethon Fondazione Onlus (Italy)
UNICEF (Bangladesh)
University of Birmingham, Health Service Management Centre (UK)
University of British Columbia (Canada)
University of Otago (Wellington, New Zealand)
US Department of Health & Human Services Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration (USA)
US-Mexican Border Health Program (USA)
Value Options (USA)
Veteran’s Health Administration (USA)
The Walsh Group, P.A. (USA)
Vivantes GmbH (Germany)
Warren Shepell Consultants Corp. (USA)
World Bank (Washington DC, USA)
World Health Organization (Switzerland)
World Organization of the Scout Movement (Switzerland)
Zambon Pharmaceuticals (Milan, Italy)
Zimmer GmbH (Switzerland, Greece, Italy)
About the School and University
SDA Bocconi School of Management
SDA Bocconi is the leading Business School in Italy and also stands among the top-ranked European Institutions. Founded in 1971, with its over 30-year experience, SDA Bocconi offers a top MBA program, and a Global Executive MBA, both entirely in English, as well as the Executive MBA/Evening Executive MBA in Italian. It also offers many specialized masters and executive programs.
The school is positioned at the heart of Milan, a major capital of industry, finance, arts, media and, above all, fashion. Milan is a real-life laboratory for SDA Bocconi.
The city is home to a myriad of companies and stock markets to which students are directly exposed.SDA Bocconi added-value is that of having on one side the academic excellence and tradition, guaranteed by ‘Università Bocconi’, its reputation, strong faculty and research centers, on the other, through its School of Management, an eye constantly opened on the market, on the business world needs, a practical, business oriented approach when facing contents and situations.
SDA Bocconi is globally focused.Students come at SDA Bocconi from across the globe.Every year, our campus is exemplification for diversity, internationalism and gender heterogeneity; our classes bring together individuals from different professional backgrounds with no industry dominating over the other.
Our worldwide network’s pillar of strength lies in the quality of the partnership SDA Bocconi holds with key business institutions around Italy and across the world. SDA Bocconi alumni operating at the major cities around the world represent a concrete global network. The School offers a full-time MBA in English, a Global Executive MBA in English as well as a modular Executive MBA and Evening Executive MBA both in Italian. In addition, the School offers six specialized master’s programs in English, two joint degree Executive master’s programs in English nine Executive and specialized master’s programs in Italian.
Furthermore, the School offers around one thousand short-term executive courses each year.
The twelve-month full-time MBA is the School’s flagship program and begins each October with approximately 100 new MBA students. Great importance is given in the program to soft skills, such as decision-making, personal leadership, negotiation and governance. Students spend the first eight months of the program taking foundation courses and developing management skills followed by a two-month practical placement (individual internship or group consulting project). During the final two months students take elective subjects in their chosen concentration of marketing and innovation, strategy or finance. Alternatively, students can complete the last two months of the MBA at another leading international business school through an exchange programme.
Exchange options are available throughout Europe and North America, as well as in Brazil, India, China, Japan and Australia.
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