Healthcare project management

Healthcare Project Management
Graduate Certificate

As a clinical, administrative or research professional, you’ve glimpsed the inner workings of the health care industry — from the data shaping new policies to the testing and analysis needed to bring a life-saving drug to the market. Or, after moving up through the ranks of another field, you now seek a career where you’ll make more visibly impactful decisions. For both types of career goals, Mizzou Online and the School of Medicine developed this graduate certificate program in healthcare project management around driving results through industry-specific leadership, strategy and organization.

From HIPAA regulations to ideas that could potentially become new therapies or medical devices, the health care field’s dynamic environment requires senior-level professionals equally fluent in management and leadership science as they are in their clinical or administrative specialty. As such, those eager to steer hospital operations or medical discoveries are advised to supplement their background with project management skills and preferably supporting certifications. Mizzou Online’s unique program equips you to pursue the following distinctions:

• Agile Certified PM (PMI-ACP)
• Certified Associate in Project Management (CAP-M)
• PMI Professional in Business Analysis (PMI-PBA)
• Project Management Professional (PMP)
• Risk Management Professional (PMI-RMP)

 For questions, contact admissions at bbmeadmissions@missouri.edu. This program is administered by the Department of Biomedical Informatics, Biostatistics and Medical Epidemiology.

About the Online Graduate Certificate Program in Healthcare Project Management

Whether doctors, nurses, data analysts, clinical scientists or researchers, health care professionals go forth with a similar mission: improving the quality of care delivered to help patients not only survive but also thrive. In committing to this objective from a higher level, managers contend with multiple intersecting factors that could potentially alter results, the services offered or department efficiency — from newly hired team members to processes and finances. Beyond direct outcomes, not streamlining these operations could have far-reaching consequences — for example, declining care quality, population health concerns or inconsistent conclusions.

The online graduate certificate program in healthcare project management explores this overlap to launch confident professionals ready to motivate teams, collaborate across organizations and support patient care from a place of leadership. Students ready to build their skills and perspective:

• Delve into project management best practices and their applications in the health care field
• Receive cross-professional training to engage health care workers at all levels and qualifications
• Connect care outcomes to project management processes and operational factors, including budgeting, tools, information management systems, compliance, risk management, policy, programming, staffing and procurement
• Learn through a problem-based, applied approach that touches on project management theories and current issues
• Understand how to manage all stages of a project, delivering solutions on time, within budget and in line with organizational targets
• Prepare to take CAPM and PMP exams to gain project manager certification