Executive Leadership Certificate Program or Physician Leadership in the Changing Health Care Environment

Physicians need to understand how health reforms and policy changes will influence the future of medicine. The Massachusetts Medical Society (MMS) believes that physician leadership is key to successfully implementing and managing a new health care paradigm. Participants will improve their leadership skills while by learning from leading edge, world-renowned health care thought-leaders who will teach new concepts and introduce tools that will help to improve quality, efficiency, and expand innovation for physician practices.

As a graduate school and research institution, The Heller School at Brandeis University has been a pioneer in a broad range of policy areas that include payment reform and the financing of health care services, leading change in the delivery system, coordination of care, and finding best practices and other innovations in the delivery of health and human services. MMS and Brandeis have developed a dynamic Executive Leadership Certificate Program for current and future health care leaders.

Since 1995, the Heller School at Brandeis University and Tufts School of Medicine (TUSM) have offered MD students an opportunity to obtain a AACSB accredited MBA degree in Health Management from Brandeis University (Heller School) in addition to their TUSM medical degree. This highly successful program has graduated nearly 200 physician-MBAs pursuing a spectrum of clinical and leadership interests making it the largest MD-MBA degree program in the United States.