Programme Description

The healthcare industry has become one of the biggest and most dynamic industries in many countries around the world. Many healthcare institutions are therefore looking for entrepreneurial-thinking and dynamic managers, who can master the challenges of this high potential market.

As the healthcare industry becomes more international, managers must possess a global, practice-oriented education coupled with strong intercultural skills.

Frankfurt School aims to equip managers with the skills required for tomorrow`s international healthcare facilities. As a graduate from the programme you will be able to unite the seemingly irreconcilable using entrepreneurial management techniques to progressively increase quality with a steady decrease in costs.

Program

* The MBA is unique in its teaching and practical approach, seeking to transcend national borders and ways of thinking worldwide.
* The MBA develops entrepreneurial healthcare facility managers equipped with advanced skills and expertise to master the challenges in a globalised healthcare sector.
* It aims at bringing together a unique group of academic experts and practitioners from a wide array of national healthcare systems in order for the programme members to gain a firm understanding of current management concepts and to analyse, compare and contrast national healthcare systems world-wide and their implications for hospital and healthcare management.
* Through residential modules in select relevant locations world-wide, the programme members will identify best-practices, develop a broad understanding of intercultural issues and build an international network of professionals leading the debate in developing the global healthcare and hospital sectors.
* The MBA has a strictly practical focus on Industry and Healthcare. The programme is designed to have a high level of practical relevance: the know-how acquired in the study modules immediately flows into management practice. With highly qualified tutors, innovative ideas are shared in a practice-oriented framework. The intensive use of case studies, also from other industrial sectors, promotes flexible management know-how and case studies from successful international healthcare act as models of best practice.

Objectives

The MBA in International Hospital and Healthcare Management is unique in its teaching and practical approach, seeking to transcend national borders and ways of thinking worldwide.

The MBA Programme in International Hospital and Healthcare Management develops entrepreneurial healthcare facility managers equipped with advanced skills and expertise to master the challenges in a globalised healthcare sector.

It aims at bringing together a unique group of academic experts and practitioners from a wide array of national healthcare systems in order for the programme members to gain a firm understanding of current management concepts and to analyse, compare and contrast national healthcare systems world-wide and their implications for hospital and healthcare management.

Through residential modules in select relevant locations world-wide, the programme members will identify best-practices, develop a broad understanding of intercultural issues and build an international network of professionals leading the debate in developing the global healthcare and hospital sectors.

The International Hospital and Healthcare Management (MBA) has a strictly practical focus on Industry and Healthcare. The programme is designed to have a high level of practical relevance: the know-how acquired in the study modules immediately flows into management practice. With highly qualified tutors, innovative ideas are shared in a practice-oriented framework. The intensive use of case studies, also from other industrial sectors, promotes flexible management know-how and case studies from successful international healthcare act as models of best practice.