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Experience a unique program designed for fulfilling the need in a rapidly expanding employment niche — the graduate certificate in healthcare project management is the first of its kind in the U.S. While many basic project management bootcamp programs already exist, this graduate certificate delivers an understanding of project management best practices and their applicability in health care settings.
This graduate certificate program provides the cross-professional training needed to enable health care workers of all levels of medical or health qualification to better manage projects needed to improve quality of care and decrease health care costs. As a student, you will gain basic knowledge of issues in health care project management and competence with skills, techniques, and tools used for effective, safe, and compliant health care project management.
Students could potentially qualify for the following professional certifications:
- Certified Associate in Project Management (CAP-M)
- Project Management Professional (PMP)
- Agile Certified PM (PMI-ACP)
- Risk Management Professional (PMI-RMP)
- PMI Professional in Business Analysis (PMI-PBA)
For questions, contact Lhakpa Lama, coordinator of student recruitment and admissions, at Ldlpdp@missouri.edu or call 573-884-0698. This program is administered by the Department of Health Management and Informatics.
Quick facts
Official name
Graduate certificate in healthcare project managementCampus
Program type
Graduate certificateAcademic home
School of Medicine | Department of Health Management and InformaticsDelivery mode
100% onlineAccreditation
Higher Learning CommissionCredit hours
12Estimated cost
$5,412.00*This cost is for illustrative purposes only. Your hours and costs will differ, depending on your transfer hours, your course choices and your academic progress. See more about tuition and financial aid.
Career prospects
Potential careers include
- Medical and health services managers
- Physicians group/practice managers
- Project managers/project office administrators
- Management analysts
- Technology project managers
- Registered nurses/nurse administrator
- Informatics nurse specialists
- Chief medical informatics officers
- Chief financial officers
- Clinical data managers/administrators
Program structure
Delivery of this program is 100% online: no campus visits are required.
Students typically take two classes each semester session and finish the program in one year.
Course work includes
- Agile project management in health care
- Enterprise information and solutions architecture for strategic health care operations
- Methods of health services research
- Decision making for health care organizations
Delivery
100% onlineCalendar system
Semester-basedTypical program length
1 yearTypical course load
2 classes per semesterAccreditation
The University of Missouri is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission, one of six regional institutional accreditors in the United States.
Faculty spotlight
Dr. Alafaireet is the Director of Applied Health Informatics, working with HMI Group consulting. She also holds a clinical faculty appointment and teaches enterprise information architecture. Her research interests include GUI aesthetics for physician use and in the application of informatics tools to day-to-day clinical operations. Her latest publications center on the development of tools and processes needed to support the predication of visit non-adherence. She is involved in the formulation of national level policy and standards development for usability and physician supplied data.
Dr. Boren is an associate professor in the Department of Health Management and Informatics, School of Medicine. Her research interests include the appropriate use of information technology to facilitate evidence-based, self-care behavior change in chronic illness as well as the evaluation of simulation in the education and training of health care professionals. She has been a member and the chair of the Research Committee of the American Association of Diabetes Educators. She is an editorial board member of the Journal of Diabetes Science and Technology (DST), and co-editor of the diabetes informatics section of DST.