Harvard Medical School’s Leadership in Medicine: Southeast Asia Program is a one-year immersive team-based program designed to help health care leaders optimize health care quality and safety, maintain excellence in health care service and patient care—and lead health care teams and projects to success.

Focused on team-based learning, the comprehensive curriculum covers core concepts in strategic management; hospital organizational structure; financial management and forecasting in health care; hospital human resource management and information technology; and medical service quality management and improvement.

Innovative Learning Model

Delivering a comprehensive curriculum on the core theoretical and practical skills necessary to maintain excellence in service and patient care, the program features a combination of online instruction, interactive webinars and short, intensive workshops led by renowned faculty from Harvard Medical School, Sunway Medical Centre and Sunway University. The blended learning approach allows students to learn at their own pace, while the in-person modules promote team-based learning and facilitated problem solving.

Program Objectives

• Leading and managing in complex organizations, crisis management, optimization quality and safety in health care
• Capital budgeting including strategic planning, the basics of financial risk and return and incorporating risk into capital budgeting decisions
• Leveraging executive decision-making tools and formal methods to assess health care plans in light of regulations and ever-changing needs in the market
• Steps needed to foster creativity throughout a department and organization
• How to apply each of these leadership capabilities to lead health care teams and projects to success