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Bachelor of Science, Ambulatory Care/Group Practice Management
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The major in Health Administration and Planning is designed to prepare students for career opportunities in various aspects of mid-level health services administration/planning in large health care organizations and top level management in smaller health care organizations.  The degree is aimed at training persons to serve in health services administration roles at the mid-management level of hospitals, large clinics. HMOs, managed care organizations, and major health services, institutions, facilities, and agencies in the private and public/government sectors.  This degree prepares a person for Nursing Home Administration licensing.  Students have also found careers in the Medical Service Corps of the Armed Forces, as well as federal, state, and county government health services and facilities, insurance companies, HMO's, PPO's, IPA's, Medical Group Management and other health and social services.
 

 
  Program Coordinator:  Dr. Christopher Lindfelt at 537-7228 or lindfelt@csusb.edu .  
  Degree Requirements (105-116 units)
Total Units for Graduation: 180-187
Note: Certain required courses also apply in the university's general education program (refer to Page 66 in CSUSB Catalog).
 
 
  Lower-Division Requirements (5 units)
 
 
  1. HSCI 120. Health and Society: An Ecological Approach (5)  
  Upper-Division Requirements (24 units)  
  1. HSCI 315. Statistics for the Health Sciences (4)  
  2. HSCI 352. Principles of Environmental Health (4)  
  3. Four units chosen from:
HSCI 355. Health, Consumer and Environmental Law (4)
HSCI 478. Environmental Health Management (4) required for Environmental Health Science concentration
 
  4. HSCI 367. Human Disease Mechanisms (4)  
  5. HSCI 451. Principles of Epidemiology (4)  
  6. HSCI 470. Health Behavior (4)  
       
  Ambulatory Care/Group Practice Management Concentration (76 units)  
1. ACCT 211. Introductory Accounting I (4)
2. ACCT 212. Introductory Accounting II (4)
3. ECON 200. Principles of Microeconomics (4)
  4. HSCI 271. Introduction to Public Health (4)  
  5. HSCI 273. Software Applications in the Health Sciences (3)  
  6. HSCI 415. Medical Care Organizations (4)  
7. HSCI 436. Human Resource Management in Ambulatory Care/Group Practice Management (4)
8. HSCI 437. Information Systems as Applied to Ambulatory Care/Group Practice Management (4)
9. HSCI 438. Financial Management of Ambulatory Care/Group Practice Management (4)
  10. HSCI 460. Strategic Planning and Marketing in the Health Care System (4)  
11. HSCI 489. Pre-Field Experience (2)
12. HSCI 490. Health Service Administration (4)
13. HSCI 495A. Field Experience (5)
14. HSCI 512. Clinical Operations of Ambulatory Care/Group Practices (4)
15. HSCI 513. Managed Care Systems
16. MGMT 302. Management and Organizational Behavior (4)
17. Fourteen units of health science electives or other electives approved by an advisor.
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