This capstone exam is an assessment of the knowledge and various skills you’ve attained throughout the MicroMasters program. They include:

• How to use management and leadership frameworks, theories, and case studies to address complex issues in healthcare organizations;
• How to identify evidence-based methods for planning, organizing, leading, and advocating for patients, families and communities in the public health sector;
• How to manage the economic environment in healthcare;
• How to apply Financial Management techniques to prepare budgets, financial forecasts, assess investment alternatives, and leverage capital structures within healthcare organizations;
• How to evaluate the value of new healthcare delivery systems and interventions on the basis of quality, safety, efficiency and cost effectiveness using accumulated data;
• How to evaluate health policy as it applies to industry economics, needs demands and quality of care;
• How to apply advocacy skills including quality of care, patients-rights, cultural competency and preventative care;
• How to demonstrate an understanding of healthcare system providers, financing, consumerism, past and future trends and regulatory and legal framework;
• How to apply leadership frameworks, skills and functions of management in planning, organizing leadership and systems control.