Schulich Mini-MBA:
Physician Business Leadership Program

Kick start the program with a deep dive into strategic management concepts in various multi-disciplinary settings. Explore changing technologies and methods of health delivery and learn about investment and financing in a global context. Predict how to work with different stakeholders while managing challenges and threats associated with healthcare.

Explore the entrepreneurial landscape in healthcare. Understand the role of disruptive technologies, innovation, new business models and how to leverage public-private partnerships. Explore value-creation through the art and science of business planning to drive investment, innovation and transformation in healthcare.

Get ready to take on new changes within your organization and the healthcare industry. Understand your own talent and leadership makeup through the Confidence Code assessment. In this module, focus on self-awareness and natural style tendencies, and brainstorm ideas of how to leverage and shift your leadership style to meet the needs of your practice.

Examine the roles played by hospitals, governments, and regional authorities, as well as their decision-making and accountability structures. Explore costs, financing, stakeholders, consolidation and clinical integration, challenges, and threats. ​

The module illustrates strategic management concepts in various management and multi-disciplinary settings.

Discover evidence-based approaches to facilitating agreements between parties. Explore ways of effectively negotiating, persuading and influencing others. Prepare yourself for negotiations and learn how to ask the right questions.

Learn about investment and financing and dive deeper into how investment decisions allocate scarce resources to projects in the organization. Understand how asset valuation, capital budgeting, risk management, working capital management and performance assessment influence financing in the global context. Explore ethical considerations and management in the global context.

Whether it is your colleagues or stakeholders, learn to manage difficult conversations in healthcare. Examine real-world challenges and prepare methods of overcoming them. Answer key questions like how do you effectively handle tough topics in conversation as a physician?

Link the execution of business strategy to innovation and new technology in healthcare. Understand how digital technologies can disrupt the healthcare industry and identify emerging technologies and their potential application to the healthcare system. Consider the implications of digital transformation on your patients, practice and workforce.

Learn how to lead in a changing world, focusing on the healthcare industry.

Explore leading empirical evidence and best practices for conceiving and executing strong marketing strategies for your brand or business. Learn how behavioural economics and neuroscience influence consumer buyer behaviour. Conceive and execute a powerful marketing strategy to grow your brand and business.

Build a dynamic skill set suitable for both formal and informal systems. Predict the way new events and emerging issues will affect your organization, the public and stakeholders. This module will guide you in identifying impacts, influencing decisions, and achieving organizational objectives. ​

Gain an understanding of the core elements of Human Resource Management. Discover how HR practices contribute to an organization’s performance and objectives.

Uncover the true nature of change and learn how to manage resistance to strategic change. Develop your capacity to foster and lead sustainable change. Examine the challenges of change and discover why 80% of change initiatives fail.