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J.D./M.B.A. in Law and Health Sector Management

If your interest is health care, BU's J.D./M.B.A. program in Law and Health Sector Management, offered in conjunction with the BU School of Management, equips you with an understanding of the interaction of legal and management principles in the field of health-services delivery. The program enables you to earn both the J.D. and the M.B.A. degrees in an accelerated program of 4 1/2 years rather than the usual 5.

Students complete the following courses for the M.B.A. in Health Sector Management: 1) All Law courses required by the J.D. program 2) Core GSM courses, required for the M.B.A. degree (listed below) 3) Health Sector Management Courses

M.B.A. Core Course Requirements: • Managing Organizations and People • Financial Reporting and Control • Marketing Management • Data Analysis for Managerial Decision-Making • Financial Management • Economics and Management Decisions • Creating Value Through Operations and Technology • IT Strategies for a Networked Economy • Competition, Innovation and Strategy • Executive Communications • Managing Career Growth • Business Law & Ethics Health Sector Management Courses: • Health Sector Issues and Opportunities • One of the following: Health Service Delivery: Strategies, Solutions and Execution OR Drugs, Devices and Diagnositics: New Challenges, Strategies and Execution Two of the following HSM Elective Courses: • Health Services Delivery: Strategies, Solutions and Execution • Drugs, Devices and Diagnositics: New Challenges, Strategies and Execution • Bench-to-Bedside - Translating Biomedical Innovation from the Laboratory to the Marketplace • Introducing and Sustaining Health Sector Innovation • Health Information Technology • Health Sector Marketing • Health Sector Consulting • Managing and Improving Quality: Six Sigma Green Belt Certification • Starting New Ventures

Students also complete a Health Sector Management Internship during the summer after their third year of law school. This provides hands-on management experience and involves a management or policy-related project of strategic or analytic value to a health care organization.

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