Clinical Practice Management (AHCP)

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5000 Level Courses

5301. Foundations of Rehab (3:3:0). This course explores the history and underlying evolution of rehabilitation practice. Issues associated with the evolving position that rehabilitative providers face are addressed in this course. This course consists of current practice patterns, paradigms, and theoretical treatment models. Additionally, the driving forces that make up our clinical models are discussed and evaluated for effectiveness.

5302. Consumer Dimensions of Healthcare (3:3:0). This course examines the influence of social-economic factors such as age, gender, ethnicity, race, and financial status on healthcare delivery. The focus is to provide the practicing clinician a more effective background to facilitate a culturally competent approach to healthcare. Topics include organizational culture, customer-oriented service, contemporary demographic trends, and the implications of these trends for effective clinical practice.

5303. Research Methods (3:3:0). This course provides the basic statistical and methodological principles underlying clinical and theoretical research, research design, and techniques for conducting appropriate literature reviews. Students will critically evaluate measurement systems, interpretations of findings, and methodologies applied within the literature.

5305. Current Medical Issues in Healthcare (3:3:0). This course presents current medical issues that influence managers in today’s dynamic healthcare environment. The course will include discussion of emerging technologies, innovative medical procedures, pharmacology issues, and current epidemiological issues. Focus is on implications on managerial decisions, organizational response, and reimbursement issues.

5306. Healthcare Delivery System (3:3:0). This course provides the student with the basic understanding of the local and international origins, evolution, and trends in institutional and non-traditional healthcare delivery. Hospitals, ambulatory care organizations, managed care organizations, integrated delivery systems, and other models are discussed in detail. Additionally, various practitioners’ roles in the delivery of care within the different models are addressed.

5307. Practice Management I (3:3:0). This course discusses managerial principles, operations, and functions within healthcare delivery systems. Examination will focus on issues such as organizational design, operational measurement, and stakeholder management. Topics include theories of leadership, management, customer service, and negotiation.

5308. Practice Management II (3:3:0). The course includes personnel management, organizational behavior, and operational issues within healthcare delivery systems. Examination will focus on individual, interpersonal, and group management; employment law; selection; discipline; motivation; staffing; productivity; and team building.

5309. Business Statistics (3:3:0). This course provides statistical knowledge needed to function in day-to-day business operations. This course will take existing data from the student’s work environment and use it to chart, graph, manipulate, and extract relevant statistical information and trends. Topics include statistical concepts, methods, and practical application.

5310. Coding and Healthcare Law (3:3:0). This course addresses current CPT and HCPCS coding issues and healthcare related laws. The course will provide the learner with current coding requirements, reimbursement changes, and legal issues facing the healthcare industry. Topics include utilization review, HIPPA, patient rights, and malpractice legislation.

5311. Healthcare Finance and Resource Management (3:3:0). This course covers principles of financial management, analysis, reporting, and allocation of resources. Issues addressed are interpretation of multiple financial statements, utilization of finance-based equations and ratios, and implementation of financial analysis in planning. Additionally, focus is placed on management and allocation of resources, including materials and inventory management.

5312. Strategic Planning (3:3:0). This course addresses the dimensions of market assessment and associated business entry policy. Topics include product line development, business plan development, planning for success, and measuring and presenting outcomes. Entrepreneurial skills, marketing, project development, SWOT analysis, and market growth assessment are significant topics addressed.

5315. Professional Development and Healthcare Ethics (3:3:0). This course guides the student’s growth through professional development. Topics include effective communication, education, professionalism, ethical issues, practice expectations, and promotion of the student’s profession.

5316. Independent Study (3:0:0). Students are offered the choice of doing an independent comprehensive literature review, research, or practice-based work related to gerontology. Students design their study plan with faculty assistance.

5317. Public Policy and Issues in Aging (3:3:0). This course focuses on the development and evaluation of public policy, state and federal legislative processes, insurance and financial planning, retirement income, protective services, and legal issues that affect the population, especially older individuals. The course investigates current events related to the public policy implementation, using both educational and consumer-based literature.

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