Student Learning Outcomes

Graduates of the Doctor of Health Science are expected to:

• Validate one’s own personal leadership practices and recognize a leader’s influence on healthcare effectiveness
• Organize and evaluate strategic practices based on various theories, models, and approaches for achieving healthcare transformation
• Analyze and evaluate the role of ethical leadership in planning and guiding the change process
• Examine the dynamics of power and politics on the delivery of healthcare, with a focus on the interrelationships of leadership, human capital, vision, and transformational change
• Differentiate the characteristics of skilled practitioners who use evidence based medicine in support of the change process
• Critique practices for building leadership capacity, coalitions and constituent support while working with resistance and conflict
• Develop a solid foundation through the integration of theory and practice to implement a planned change process in health services delivery
• Design and complete independent research projects using advanced methodologies on the individual, social and healthcare delivery system factors influencing health and/or academic outcomes
• Translate evidence-based interventions and programs into health practice and policy through dissemination and implementation of scientific methodologies