MEDI896B

037024

This non-clinical internship, offered through the Dean's office on the Tucson campus, provides the student a structured, faculty-mentored experience to explore many facets of healthcare leadership. It draws upon the expertise of leaders from the colleges of the University of Arizona Health Sciences, UA main campus, and the community, including Healthcare Transformation Institute.

Format:
Each student will participate in a comprehensive program that includes observation and shadowing, readings, and the completion of a mentored project.

Assigned Readings
Student will be provided several journal articles, book sections, reports, etc. related to topics such as academic medicine, medical education, administration, strategic planning, management, healthcare delivery and models of care, and leadership. S/he will be encouraged to reflect on these readings through discussions with internship mentor(s), COM administrators and leaders, and/or in a personal journal.

Observation and Shadowing
Student will attend selected meetings, planning sessions, budget reviews, etc., and will also spend time accompanying the dean, deputy deans, other administrators or mentors as they conduct their professional work in order to become aware of the scope and nature of activities in the healthcare administration environment.

Select Tasks
Student will be given a few, specifically selected tasks to provide exposure to the nature of daily activities that are typical for a position in healthcare administration. For example, the intern might be asked to draft a simple memo announcing a policy change, make telephone or email inquiries to peer institutions to determine options for handling an administrative matter, or prepare a PowerPoint presentation on some topic for the deputy deans' weekly meeting or a department heads' meeting.

Mentored Project
Student will identify a small healthcare administration-related project to develop as the internship capstone effort. This project will be identified through discussion with the internship mentor, and will be based on the intern's personal interests, as well as current issues and projects of selected track: academic medicine, hospital administration, or models of healthcare delivery.

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