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Southern Medical Association Presents
Certificate in Business Administration for Physicians February – December 2008
SOURCE: Southern Medical Association
11:25AM, November 6, 2007
Birmingham, Alabama – The Southern Medical Association (SMA) announces open registration for the 2008 Certificate in Business Administration for Physicians Course. This course is 100% distance-learning and is affiliated with Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama and led by an astute team of business, legal, and healthcare leaders, all widely received in their respective fields.
The Certificate in Business Administration for Physicians Program provides an overall orientation to the business skills needed to successfully manage the operations and functions of a healthcare organization or medical practice, while allowing physicians to actively participate in its strategic success.
This program is designed for physicians who currently serve in a healthcare executive position, are interested in seeking an executive position in healthcare in the future, desire to build management/leadership skills to better manage a private practice, as well as physicians-in-training/new practicing physicians.
Participants will also learn key steps in entrepreneurship, how to develop a business plan for healthcare, basic techniques of successful negotiations, effective business writing skills, financial feasibility studies & certificates of need analysis, and more in order to allow for active participation in their organization’s strategic business success.
A brief overview of modules of learning for this course include:
- Leadership and Management for Healthcare Systems
- Legal and Regulatory Issues in Healthcare Administration
- Economics and Financial Aspects of Healthcare Administration
- Marketing Healthcare Services and Entrepreneurship
- Managed Care and Integrated Delivery Systems
- Business Communications and Strategic Planning for Healthcare Administration
This unique opportunity affords physicians a unique credential from a recognized provider of leadership development and CME, program content designed to provide tools to chart professional development, flexible timeframes enabling participants to study at their convenience, and accumulation of up to 41 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits TM, all while interacting with distinguished faculty scholars and leaders including: Casey G. Cegielski, PhD, Joy L. Clark, PhD, Jackie Di Pofi, PhD, Sarah Freymann Fontenot, JD, BSN; Stanley G. Harris, PhD, G. Richard Holt, MD, MPH, MSE, Jean Edwards Holt, MD, MHA, John S. Jahera, Jr., PhD, Dianne Love, PhD, Sharon L. Oswald, PhD; Daniel E. Page, PhD.
To register for this conference or for more information, please contact Tina Kehoe at 1-800-423-4992 ext. 118, tkehoe@sma.org, or visit us at www.sma.org/cbap. The Southern Medical Association designates this educational activity for a maximum of 41 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™.
Southern Medical Association, provider of Medallion Level CME, is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians. SMA, a physician member association, advocates for improved health for every individual focusing on greater access to care, healthcare research, and disease prevention and treatment through a multi-specialty, interdisciplinary approach. Southern Medical Association supports physicians and other healthcare professionals to practice the highest standards of the art and science of medicine. SMA fosters the highest level of continuing medical education, professional services, collegiality across specialties, and leadership development for its members.
For additional information visit
www.sma.org
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