Stanford University

Healthcare Leadership

Acquire practical tools to lead innovative improvements in your healthcare setting.

Start date

19 February 2025

Price

$3,090 USD

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Course duration

8 weeks

Excluding orientation

Language

English

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Effort

6–9 hours per week

Self-paced learning online

ABOUT THIS COURSE

Course overview

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The percentage of healthcare leaders who named physician and leader alignment as their top investment priority.

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Healthcare professionals ranked the ability to lead people as the most important leadership skill for success in healthcare organizations.

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Duration: 8 weeks (excluding orientation)

In the constantly evolving and intricate world of healthcare, running an effective organization can significantly impact patient care. To thrive in this industry, healthcare professionals must hone their leadership skills and adaptability, and be capable of responding to and driving change.

The Stanford Center for Health Education (SCHE) Healthcare Leadership online short course provides learners with the knowledge and tools needed to bring about positive change in their healthcare setting. This eight-week course will equip you with practical methods to identify areas of improvement in healthcare systems and enable you to lead change initiatives. Led by industry experts, you'll develop effective strategies to enhance team performance and discover how to foster trust and collaboration by embracing vulnerability.

The Healthcare Leadership course covers various topics, including systems improvement frameworks, crisis management, and decision-making under pressure. In addition, you'll learn how storytelling can be a powerful tool in driving change and maximizing the potential of yourself, your teams, and your organization. By the end of the course, you'll be well-equipped to create an impactful narrative for change and drive long-term positive transformation in your healthcare organization.

Is this course for you?

This Healthcare Leadership course targets healthcare professionals who desire to enhance their leadership skills. It focuses on imparting effective techniques for leading healthcare teams and organizations, thereby providing medical professionals with a valuable asset. Additionally, non-medical professionals who seek to adapt to changes and emerging demands in the healthcare sector can benefit from this course. Even experienced business leaders can develop their skills in creating efficient healthcare systems and tackling complex issues. This course is an excellent opportunity to enhance one's healthcare leadership abilities.

Course overview

Duration: 8 weeks (excluding orientation)

What will set you apart

On completion of this course, you’ll walk away with:

Strategies to enhance your management and leadership competencies to achieve organizational outcomes across healthcare settings.

The ability to effectively manage change, make better leadership decisions, and drive healthcare innovation.

An individual development plan to lead continuous healthcare improvement at the personal, team, and organizational levels, and the skills to apply relevant frameworks for individual and organizational development and crisis management within a healthcare context.

An understanding of how data supports stories to build trust and evidence-based leadership.

Unlimited access to 2U’s Career Engagement Network, offering you exclusive resources and events to support your professional journey and drive your career forward.

Course curriculum

Explore the application of improvement strategies for success throughout your healthcare setting as you work through the weekly modules of this online short course.

Orientation module

Welcome to your Online Campus

Module 1

Essentials of managing the self in complex healthcare systems

Module 2

Cultivating relationships across healthcare

Module 3

Teaming with trust

Module 4

Improvement: The intersection of management and leadership

Module 5

Decision-making in a high-stakes environment

Module 6

Leading through a crisis with effective communication

Module 7

Leading change in healthcare

Module 8

Storytelling with numbers

Academic Director

The design of this online short course is guided by Stanford Center for Health Education faculty, as well as industry experts, who will share their experience and in-depth knowledge with you throughout the course.

Dr. Nirav R. Shah

Senior Scholar, Stanford University’s Clinical Excellence Research Center

About the certificate

Acquire the skills to initiate change in the healthcare sector and earn an official certificate of completion from Stanford Center for Health Education

Assessment is continuous and based on a series of practical assignments completed online. In order to be issued with your digital certificate, you’ll need to meet the requirements outlined in the course handbook. The handbook will be made available to you as soon as you begin the course.

Your digital certificate will be issued in your legal name and sent to you upon successful completion of the course, as per the stipulated requirements.

Stanford Healthcare Leadership online short course certificate

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