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"The non-physician health care
executives simply don't understand the patient issues, and we health professionals know
very little about crucial issues such as accounting, health care finance and
organizational behavior."
- Richard Schwartz, M.D., professor of
surgery, UK College of Medicine
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LEXINGTON, KY (June 11, 1999) -- Fifteen
University of Kentucky Chandler Medical Center and private health professionals including
physicians, pharmacists and dentists were honored at the second graduating class of the
Certificate in Medical Management (CMM) program at a ceremony held recently. The CMM
program, in its second year, aims to help Medical Center health professionals develop
leadership, financial and conflict resolution skills. Taught by faculty from UK's Gatton
College of Business and Economics and the College of Allied Health Professions, the UK
program is the first "in-house" program of its kind in the country. It consists
of two semesters with course content (managerial economics, organizational behavior,
health care delivery systems and intermediate accounting) taught every other Thursday and
Friday along with special topics such as managed care, conflict resolution and team
building.
"The non-physician health care executives simply don't understand the patient
issues, and we health professionals know very little about crucial issues such as
accounting, health care finance and organizational behavior," said Richard Schwartz,
M.D., professor of surgery, UK College of Medicine. Schwartz helped design the certificate
program along with Gov. Martha Layne Collins, F. Douglas Scutchfield, M.D, program
director for the master’s in health administration degree, and Michael Tearney,
Ph.D., associate dean of the Gatton College of Business and Economics.
"As medical students we trained vigorously and exclusively in different clinical
specialties; now we need to learn about the business side of medicine."
Seventeen physicians, including Schwartz, completed the program last year (1997-1998).
Building a core of health professionals trained in health care financial issues,
leadership skills and team-building principles is a major goal of the program. The CMM is
an entree into the master’s in business administration program and completion of its
requirements constitutes one-fourth of that degree. Many of the participants in the first
two CMM groups currently are completing the MBA program with a health care concentration.
Schwartz, the first to finish, just graduated in June 1999.
Those honored in May 1999 were: Sanford M. Archer, M.D., Leon A. Assael, D.M.D., Karen
Blumenschein, Pharm.D., Timothy S. Caudill, M.D., Holly H. Gallion, M.D., John T.
Gorczyca, M.D., Ginny M. Hamm, J.D., Robert J. Kuhn, Pharm.D., James R. McCormick, M.D.,
Margaret M. Nowak-Rapp, Pharm.D., Julia A. Popham, M.D., Michael C. Shannon, Ph.D., Randal
E. Schleenbaker, M.D., David W. Wendel, M.D., and Robert D. Woods II, M.D. The third year
of the CMM program will commence in September. |
