About the Programme
The Bocconi University Masters’ Degree in International Healthcare Management, Economics and Policy (MIHMEP) is a dynamic, interdisciplinary program focused on healthcare management, economics and policy offered by SDA Bocconi School of Management. It is an intensive one-year post-graduate program offering top-level university graduates from a wide range cultural, professional, and cultural backgrounds throughout the world to develop theoretical and practical skills in diverse aspects of healthcare management, including economic analysis, epidemiology, marketing, and policy analysis and formulation. This diversity of approach, culture and experience considerably enriches the learning process.
Moreover, the Bocconi MIHMEP Programme is unique in that it is truly international, in terms of scope, content and organisation. In the first eight editions we have hosted participants from more than sixty different countries around the world in addition to professors from over ten countries and three continents.Truly international, indeed!
After completing three terms of classroom work and a three-month, sector-specific internship our graduates go on to rewarding managerial careers in many healthcare fields, including international pharmaceutical, medical device and biotech companies, international relief organisations, and hospital/clinic network administration in both the public and private sectors.
Over the course of the academic programme, MIHMEP participants are afforded the opportunity to identify new career objectives and network with international healthcare professionals and institutions. Principal recruiting companies are public and private healthcare organisations, consulting firms, private companies, universities and research centres, ministries of health and international organisations.
The programme is structured as follows:
MIHMEP Colloquium (September 15th 2008 - September 26th 2008)
This is an introductory two-week course, which has two main objectives:
• to orient incoming students to the MIHMEP program and to Bocconi University;
• to provide students with practice in the art of diversity healthcare management, teambuilding and professional document writing through some interactive workshops.
The colloquium is lead by MIHMEP faculty and practitioners.
First term (September 29th 2008 - December 19th 2008)
The first term starts immediately after the MIHMEP Colloquium and lasts for 3 months. During the first term students are required to take the following 6 courses:
| Courses |
Hours |
| Financial Accounting in Healthcare
Organisations * |
32 |
| Basic Epidemiology |
32 |
| Health Economics |
48 |
| Health Economics |
48 |
| Healthcare Systems & Policy |
48 |
| Quantitative Methods * |
48 |
| Organisational Behaviour * |
24 |
Second term (January 12th 2009 – March 27th 2009)
Students are required to attend 4 compulsory courses:
| Courses |
Hours |
| Economic Evaluation of Healthcare |
32 |
| e-Health |
32 |
| Organisation Design in Healthcare |
24 |
| Cost Accounting in Healthcare
Organisations* |
24 |
Third term (March 30th 2009 - May 22nd 2009)
Students choose 6 optional courses among the following offered:
| Courses |
Hours |
| Marketing in Healthcare Organisations |
24 |
| Pharmaceutical Policy and Management |
24 |
| Managed Care |
24 |
| Management Control
& Performance Measurement |
24 |
| Quality Management and
Operations in Healthcare Organisations |
24 |
| Health Policy and Management in
Developing Countries |
24 |
| Decision Analysis for Healthcare
Organisations |
24 |
| Regulation, Management and
Entrepreneurship in the Biotech Sector |
24 |
| Advanced Epidemiology |
24 |
| Global Strategies for Health |
24 |
| Issues in Public Health |
24 |
| Program Design and Evaluation** |
24 |
| Consultancy Management** |
24 |
| Financial Management** |
24 |
Please note that the allocation of optional courses to a specific term might be subject to change.
* Please note that these courses are jointly offered to MIHMEP and MPM students.
** Courses offered by MPM (Master of Public Management) programme.
Fourth term (May 29th 2009 – September 4th 2009)
During the fourth term, students participate in a 12-week internship within a healthcare organisation or a company or a non governmental organization in Italy or abroad. The internship enables them to develop practical expertise in applying solutions to management and policy problems.
Students are assigned a specific topic or problem to deal with during this term. At the end of the experience the students prepare a report with the supervision of both the SDA tutor and a company tutor, describing and discussing the results of their projects.
Organisations offering internships to MIHMEP students have included:
Adis International (Italy), Aga Khan Health Service ( Tanzania), Analytica International (Germany), APS Healthcare Inc (USA), Astrazeneca ( Italy), Aispo ( Italy), APS Healthcare (USA), Baxter ( Italy), Bioxell ( Italy), Bracco Imaging (Italy), bWell International In.c (USA), Center for Strategic Health Studies, Ministry of Health Syria (Syria), Chiesi Farmaceutici (Italy), Council on Accreditation (USA), COOPI (Aden, Yemen), Departamento de Salud (Puerto Rico), Department of Health (London, UK), Dompé (Italy), East London & City Mental Health NHS Trust (UK), EMEA (UK), Emergency (Italy), European Health Management Association (Belgium), Farmindustria (Italy), First Advantage (USA), Freedom from Hunger (Uganda), Fondazione Ivo De Carneri ( Italy), General Hospital of Naussa (Greece), Georgetown Kennedy School of Bioethics (USA), Glaxo SmithKline ( Italy), Global Healthcare Awareness Committee (USA), Gruenenthal (Germany), Harvard School of Public Health (USA), HLSP Consulting, (UK), HOPE – European Hospital and Healthcare Federation (Belgium), Hospital Daniel Bracamonte (Bolivia), Hospital “Luigi Sacco” (Italy), Hospital San Paolo (Italy), Hospital San Raffaele (Italy), Hospital Valduce ( Italy), Humanitas Private Hospital (Italy), Institute of Community & Public Health (Palestine), John Hopkins International (USA), La Sapienza University (Italy), Lumenos Consultancy (USA), Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Italy), MASI research Consultants (USA), MEDISS (Milan, Italy) Metropolitan Hospital (Greece), National Chengdu Center for Safety Evaluation of Traditional Chinese Medicine (China), Newmed ( Italy), Novartis Pharma (Italy, Switzerland), Oracle ( Italy), Policlinico “A. Gemelli” (Italy), Portsmouth Hospitals NHS trust (UK), Pricewaterhouse- Coopers (Italy), Programma de Cooperação Socio-Sanitario (Mozambico), Pfizer GmbH (Germany, Italy), RAS ( Italy), Rhon-Klinikum (Germany), Roche Diagnostics, (Switzerland), Rotary Club (Italy), Sentrix Global Health Communications Srl (Italy), Sony Business Europe (Greece), SGC Consulting ( Italy), Schering-Plough (Italy), Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services NGO (USA), Sudler & Hennessey (Italy), Sunnybrook Campus (Canada), Telethon Fondazione Onlus ( Italy), UNICEF (Bangladesh), University of Birmingham, Health Service Management Centre (UK), University of British Columbia (Canada), University of Otago (Wellington, New Zealand), US Department of Health & Human Services Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration (USA), US-Mexican Border Health Program (USA), Value Options (USA), Veteran’s Health Administration (USA), The Walsh Group, P.A. (USA), Vivantes GmbH (Germany), Warren Shepell Consultants Corp. (USA), World Bank (Washington DC, USA), World Health Organisation (Switzerland), World Organisation of the Scout Movement (Switzerland), Zambon Pharmaceuticals (Milan, Italy), Zimmer GmbH (Switzerland, Greece, Italy).
About the School and University
Università Commerciale "Luigi Bocconi"
Università Commerciale "Luigi Bocconi" was established in 1902 with a generous endowment from Ferdinando Bocconi, a wealthy merchant who thereby meant to commemorate his son disappeared in battle overseas. Bocconi thus became the first Italian institution of higher education to grant a degree in economics.
In keeping with the ideals of its founders, Bocconi University seeks to address the research and education needs of the national, European, and global economic system, by assiduously favouring cultural progress, international exchange, and economic integration.
Therefore, the University promotes both economic advancement and civic values, by providing students with solid intellectual and professional training, so that they can contribute to the innovation and development of Italian and European businesses. Accordingly, Bocconi is committed to nurture both an analytical and an ethical mindset in its graduates. Bocconi views culture and science as the cornerstones for the moral and economic renewal of Italy.
Bocconi is a research university of international standing. By means of basic and applied research funded by national and supranational organizations, Bocconi makes its contribution to the progress of business and economic science. By partaking in a European and global network of international centres of economic knowledge, Bocconi exchanges faculty and cooperates on large projects with several like-minded European and American universities and business schools. By cultivating close relations with firms, agencies, and their management and officials, Bocconi costantly interacts with the business and economic environment to assess new issues, implement new techniques, and start new research endeavours.
Bocconi University conceives education as an ongoing process which does not end with graduation, but spans the entire professional life of an individual. To this aim, Bocconi provides integrated offerings in undergraduate, graduate, and post-experience education. Bocconi University grants BAs, MBAs and PhDs in Management, Economics, Statistics, and other disciplines. It also administers hundreds of advanced courses to managers and professionals in all realms of private and public management.
SDA Bocconi School of Management
SDA Bocconi School of Management was founded in 1971 by Università Bocconi. After being a pioneer in Italy, it today enjoys international recognition as a leading management school, present in the most important rankings. Its mission is to educate men and women ready to act anywhere in the world, using their knowledge and imagination.
Many economic and business leaders have passed through Bocconi; a number of the world’s top 100 economists graduated here. And every year, the MBA and Master programmes in English attract a growing number of foreign students to SDA.
SDA Bocconi dedicates energy and resources to creating value and spreading values.
Proof of this are its research, teaching and relations with the scientific, business and institutional communities. It is exemplified by its exchanges, international approach, critical spirit, pragmatism, curiosity and strength to innovate. Knowledge and imagination are the shared pride and heritage of the faculty, its students, and thousands of alumni around the world.
Another reason for the appeal of SDA Bocconi is being in the centre of Milan, the linchpin of the Italian economy, the country’s industrial and financial heart, and one of the planet’s design capitals. Men and women who come to SDA Bocconi have first-hand experience of education open to the world on a campus that, more than just a physical location, measurable in square metres, offers a series of horizons and opportunities to penetrate the core of the global economy through accredited and highly appreciated courses. In 1998, SDA Bocconi was the first institution in Italy to obtain EQUIS (European Quality Improvement System) accreditation.
With a Faculty of more than 600 teachers and researchers, the School supports and renews over 1,000 initiatives every year. It operates on all the strategic fronts of education: executive courses, tailor-made courses, specialist master degrees and bilingual MBA programmes. This is why more than 20,000 participants choose SDA Bocconi every year.
SDA Bocconi for Healthcare
Since 1976 SDA Bocconi School of Management has been elaborating and disseminating management knowledge and competencies, as well as promoting the implementation of managerial approaches and innovation in the healthcare sector. Its mission is to disseminate managerial knowledge and skills to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of organizations operating in the healthcare sector.
Within SDA Bocconi, a full time faculty of professors and researchers is in charge of the development of advanced training programs and initiatives on healthcare management, economics and policy. These courses (Masters, short and long term programs) share the same vision on the key role of management in international healthcare organizations, healthcare providers and NGOs as well as healthcare industry segments. Research activities carried out by the School provide the foundations for teaching material, which is tailored to address participants' specific requirements: case studies, simulation models and analysis grids become the basis for effective and innovative learning activities.
CERGAS Bocconi
The Centre for Research on Healthcare Management (CERGAS) of Bocconi University was founded in 1978 to promote, design and develop basic and applied research in the healthcare, welfare, and educational systems. Its specific emphasis is on individual institutions and organisations. To this end, it uses the principles, methods, and tools of management and public management; it relies on an integrated system of thematic observatories, it coordinates, or participates in, several academic and professional networks at the national and international levels. Basic and applied research are viewed as mutually interdependent in that the latter provides the former with questions to tackle and empirical validations. Networks allow CERGAS to promote comparative studies, present the results of its research, develop models of innovation in health policy and management.
Milan
Rich in art, history and culture, Milan (Milano in the Italian language) is home to the Gothic Cathedral known as "Duomo di Milano", the Teatro La Scala Opera, the Church of Santa Maria delle Grazie (where the Leonardo da Vinci's Last Supper fresco is located), the Sforza Castle, the Brera Museum, the Basilica of Sant'Ambrogio, and many other monuments and museums
Milan is the Country's business, design, fashion and music capital; the top Italian companies and financial institutions and Italy's leading Stock Exchange are located in the city, where fashion designers have concentrated their shops, boutiques, and showrooms and the nation's most important design schools and world-class music conservatories are situated. At Milan's Fiera trade fair centre most important conventions and trade fairs in Southern Europe are held.
Milan is the main city in Northern Italy. It is located in the plains of Lombardy, just South of the Italian Alps mountain chain, close to other beautiful cities like Venice and Florence.
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