Master of Healthcare Competency-Driven Curriculum
The UNCW MHA program has incorporated the National Center for Healthcare Leadership’s (NCHL) 3.0 – Competency Model ™ into the MHA curriculum. The NCHL 3.0 model was developed to provide the field with a comprehensive, validated competency model that was suitable as the foundation for a breadth of leadership assessment and development applications.
The MHA program was designed to prepare early to mid-level careerists to serve as effective managers and administrators within a wide range of healthcare organizations. The Program accomplishes this by providing transformative learning experiences and foundational knowledge and skills aligned with competencies from the NCHL 3.0 model. The model is a perfect fit for the Program as it was developed and validated utilizing interdisciplinary subject matter experts, and was refined in collaboration with industrial and educational psychologists.
MHA Program Competencies
The following core competencies serve as the foundation of the UNCW - Master of Healthcare Administration program:
Domain I: Knowledge of the Healthcare System
Domain II: Communications and Interpersonal Effectiveness
Domain III: Critical Thinking, Analysis, and Problem Solving
Domain IV: Management and Leadership
Domain V: Professionalism and Ethics
Career Development - Focused Curriculum
The Program curriculum is innovatively designed to focus on individual developmental needs within each “learner specific” career field. Program faculty realize that while each student is on the same path toward an MHA degree, their prior experiences and ultimate destination will vary. As a result, the curriculum is created to be both adaptive and personalized – leveraging concepts of connectivism, standardized-, and customized- learning paths.
Adaptive learning within the curriculum involves using technology-based educational tools that provide individual adaptive learning experiences for learners based on data gathered throughout the learning process. The Program’s design allows learners the ability to custom-tailor their learning experience so that it becomes more meaningful to their long-term career goals. This often involves engagement in “just-in-time” learning experiences where learners can further develop and apply program competencies.