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Medicine and Management
IN 601

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Description

As practicing professionals, physicians continually face complex challenges in relating to the organizations in which they work. This class, designed for students in the HMS/HBS combined MD/MBA program and the Clinical Informatics Fellowship Program provides an overview of the structure and function of health care institutions and illustrates the role of these organizations in producing successful clinical outcomes. Class sessions, assigned readings, and written assignments offer a multidisciplinary perspective combining component academic disciplines of management and medicine.

Prerequisites: Completion of HMS PCE for MD students. Member of MD/MBA program or permission of course directors. MMSc students in the Biomedical Informatics program are approved to enroll pending capacity.

Class Notes

Location: HBS

Prerequisites: Completion of HMS PCE. Member of MD/MBA program or permission of course directors.

HMS MMSc students in the Biomedical Informatics program may also petition for enrollment pending capacity.

School Harvard Medical School
Credits 2
Cross Reg

Available for Harvard Cross Registration

Course Component Discipline Specific
Instruction Mode In Person
Subject IN
Grading Basis HMS Pre-Clinical
Curriculum Phase Post-PCE
Visiting Clerks NO
Course Type Nonclinical Electives