Executive MBA in Healthcare Leadership (EMBA-HL)

Executive Summary
  • Executive MBA Program in Health Care Leadership.
  • Applied capstone project, benefitting your organization.
  • Modular approach: one long week per semester and one 3- to 4-day weekend per month.
  • Students can graduate in 15 to 18 months.
  • The program will be delivered by Alfaisal faculty, local experts and faculty from the University of Tennessee, which has one of the most successful and established programs in the USA.
  • Courses delivered by international and local experts.
  • The program is designed for impact.
  • Heavy emphasis on applied and case-based learning.
  • Five years of experience and good English language skills are required for admission.
Our Value Proposition

Key benefits to the participants include:

  • Healthcare business acumen: holistic healthcare understanding, including topics such as healthcare finance, healthcare economics, lean management for healthcare, and healthcare policy.
  • Transformational capabilities and performance excellence: business model strategies, organizational design and alignment, and change management.
  • Systems thinking and operational excellence: operating models for integrated care, value-based and risk-sharing service models, and continuous improvement.
  • Data-driven decision-making: integrating data into decision-making processes and day-to-day management to gain insights and drive outcomes.
  • Healthcare informatics, artificial technology, digitalization, and machine learning: identifying the direction and use of these technologies to make healthcare more efficient and increase patient outcomes.
  • Governance in the healthcare sector using a sustainable framework: measuring, practicing, and improving governance models and the implementation in healthcare organizations.
  • We incorporate the Kingdom’s healthcare and legal system in our curriculum.
What Makes our Program Unique and World Class?
  1. Our world-class faculty operate at the intersection between research and the business world, complementing their academic knowledge with constant engagement with businesses to provide real-world applicability to their teaching.
  2. Classes are interactive, discussion-based with a heavy emphasis on case-based learning and simulations.
  3. You will develop a holistic understanding of how a business works across the entire general management spectrum, emphasizing application in healthcare. You will tackle real-world assignments based on genuine organizational challenges.
  4. Learning how to make decisions using processes, tools, frameworks, and discipline to help achieve more creative and successful outcomes. You will examine creative approaches and critical techniques to evaluate decision alternatives.
  5. Local faculty and clinical leadership experts supplemented with International expertise from UT.
  6. What you learn in our program will allow you to make an immediate impact in your organization through transformation, innovation, and big thinking.
  7. Improve your personal leadership and project management skills.
Our Program from a Macro Perspective

What Are the Benefits of Attending an EMBA in Healthcare Leadership?

Our competitive EMBA Health Leadership program will also help meet the Kingdom’s goals for Saudization, improved efficiencies, and access to healthcare by:

  • Providing training in modern management methods, techniques, and concepts to healthcare leaders and managers.
  • Focusing on disciplines that have gained importance in the healthcare sector:
    • Healthcare Informatics
    • Artificial Intelligence
    • Human Resources
    • Accounting
    • Supply Chain Management
    • Healthcare Economics
    • Capital Management
    • Finance
    • Population Health
    • Decision Making
    • Transformation/digitalization
    • Strategic change management
  • Integrating theoretical, conceptual, practical, and analytical approaches following a “Tell-Show-Do” approach.
  • Students of the AU’s Health Leadership program will learn how to apply modern management techniques that are directly related to the Saudi Healthcare Transformation Initiative and Vision 2030 challenging environment.
Module
1. APPLIED ANALYTICS MODULE:
  • Statistical Analysis: Uncertainty, Prediction, and Quality Control
  • Data Analytics
  • Optimization
2. ACCOUNTING & FINANCE MODULE:
  • Health Care Economics
  • Financial Accounting
  • Strategic Cost Management
  • Managerial Finance
  • Healthcare Accounting and Finance
  • Healthcare Financial Statement Analysis
  • Corporate Governance
  • Risk Management
  • Healthcare Insurance
3. LEADERSHIP MODULE
  • Personal Leadership and Communication
  • Ethics in Healthcare
  • Applied Leadership Development
  • Human Resource Management in a Healthcare Setting
4. TRANSFORMATION, INNOVATION & ENTREPRENEURSHIP:
  • Healthcare Transformation
  • Innovation in Health Care
  • Entrepreneurship in Healthcare
5. MANAGEMENT
  • Core Module in Management
  • Population Health Management
  • Health Sector Strategy and Organization
  • Decision-Making From a Psychology Perspective
  • Digital Healthcare
  • Healthcare Control
  • Healthcare Design
  • Strategic Change and Implementation
  • Negotiations
  • Project Management
6. OPERATIONS:
  • Healthcare Business Operations – A Global Perspective Supply Chain
  • Management
  • Quality Management
7. TECHNOLOGY:
  • Healthcare Informatics
  • Healthcare Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
8. MARKETING:
  • Marketing in Healthcare
  • Digital & Social Media Marketing
  • Branding and Product/Service Strategy
9. Healthcare Accreditation Seminar
10. CAPSTONE PROJECT
Admission Requirements (EMBA-HL)
  1. A bachelor's degree accepted by The Ministry of Education (MOE) in a related field.
  2. A satisfactory scholastic average; a minimum grade average of "good" in the bachelor’s degree.
  3. Alfaisal Graduates or applicants who come from a country or political entity where English is not the official language adequate proficiency in English to do graduate work, as evidenced by

    4.  

    MBA

    IELTS (Academic)

    6

    TOEFL iBT

    70

    STEP

    90

    *English language tests are valid for three years.

  4. Candidates are also expected to have excellent computer skills.
  5. Boot camp courses, ensuring essential exposure to basic quantitative, accounting, and finance principles prior to joining the program. These will be provided by AU.
  6. At least five years’ working experience in a healthcare or healthcare related environment.
  7. Statement of purpose describing the candidate’s academic interests and reasons for applying, to be supplied at the time of interview..
  8. No concurrent enrollment in another AU graduate program.
  9. Applicant should provide one recent letter of recommendation from professors who taught or from a manager at the workplace.
  10. The graduate study application must be accompanied by a non-refundable application fee payable to Alfaisal University, which is equal to SAR 600.
  11. An Interview with the applicant may be requested, if required.
Duration | Executive MBA in Healthcare Leadership (EMBA-HL)

The EMBA-HL is a 15-to-18-month program..

Format-Executive MBA in Healthcare Leadership (EMBA-HL)
  • Complete the program in 15 to 18 months.
  • One full week per semester for a total of three (3) weeks during the entire program.
  • One three-day weekend per month. Fifteen (15) weekends in total.
  • Capstone project selection at the end of the first semester.
  • 80% face-to-face, 20% online.
  • Assessments will be in person, including the presentation of the capstone project.
Tuition Fees - Executive MBA in Healthcare Leadership (EMBA-HL)

Description

Amount (SAR)

Application Fee (Non-Refundable)

600 SAR

EMBA-HL Total Cost

290,000 SAR

Seat Reservation and Tuition fee first instalment paid before the beginning of the Academic year/Registration (Non-Refundable)

5000 SAR

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