| Fellowship Program : At a Glance |
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CAHME offers the Accreditation Fellowship program,
designed for individuals with the potential to make significant contributions
to health services administration education. During this appointment,
Fellows have invaluable opportunities to work with highly regarded
practitioners from significant organizations in the health care industry
and academicians from leading healthcare education programs who serve
as Commissioners. Fellows participate in all Commission activities,
which offer them the opportunity to learn about the process, achievements,
and challenges of evaluating professional education. Fellows serve
as the secretary for three to four accreditation surveys during the
term of their appointment, attend two Commission meetings over an
approximate two year period and participate in the Fellowship Training
programs.
Comments from CAHME Fellows:
Lt. Col. Glenn Yap, Assistant Professor, Army-Baylor: “The
CAHME process is a structured method to determine is accreditation criteria are
met, but the process is flexible enough for programs to meet their unique goals
and objectives. The CAHME process ensures accredited programs provide a rigorous,
comprehensive, and top quality education to our future health care leaders.
Being a CAHME fellow is a wonderful learning experience. It has provided me the
opportunity to see and share best practices in programs throughout the US and
Canada. I will definitely improve the program I'm teaching in and my own teaching
style.
CAHME accreditation is the only objective way students can be sure they are receiving
a quality healthcare management education. Employers can be assured that CAHME
accredited program graduates have received the necessary education to succeed
in today's complex health care environment.”
Mary Jane Mastorovich, Graduate Program Coordinator at Georgetown said: “I
found my role as fellow challenging and intellectually stimulating. This service
afforded me the opportunity to develop relationships with some of the discipline's
true leaders and scholars. This was a real pleasure. The site visits, although
somewhat grueling, provided me with an opportunity to learn about the many unique
ways that programs design curricula to meet the Criteria for Accreditation.
The Accreditation Council meetings afforded me
an opportunity to observe the commissioners in their deliberations
designed to enforce the criteria utilized in the CAHME accreditation
process. It’s my opinion that the process of accreditation
ensures that our academic institutions prepare practitioners to
competently serve in this vital industry.
Accreditation Fellowship nominations and applications are accepted
from faculty members of graduate programs in health services administration,
corporate members, professional societies and from practicing healthcare
management administrators in the U.S. and Canada. Nominees should
have demonstrated leadership potential in the healthcare field
and an interest in accreditation and its quality improvement role
in health administration education. Practitioners should have formal
connections to and interest in health administration education
through a teaching appointment and/or preceptorship in a graduate
program."
Ken Johnson, PhD, Chair, Health Administration Services, Weber State
University said: “I applied to be a fellow in order to learn
how to build a good MHA program. I've learned not only from the programs I've
visited, but from the other professionals serving with CAHME. It's been an
very valuable experience for me. So much so, that I've asked to continue to
serve.
I've learned, through my service, that CAHME commissioners and
the experts who participate in the surveys, are concerned for the
industry and want the programs to succeed. In the many discussions
I've been involved in with CAHME, the bottom line has always been
about improving the education experience for the students and providing
programs that benefit the health care industry.
I'm convinced that receiving CAHME's seal of approval and support
is worthwhile and an important aspect of a successful program.
As director of the brand new MHA at Weber State University, the
faculty and I have built our program around CAHME's criteria. We
are striving to achieve accreditation as soon as we are eligible
to do so.”
Patricia Ketsche, PhD, Assistant Professor, Georgia State University said: “I
found my first site visit experience helpful on several levels:
- Preparation of the report and listening to the
discussion of the team helped me to thoroughly understand the
accrediation criteria. Even though I have read the criteria before,
this work helped me become much more familiar with the content
and the rationale for each item.
- The intense review of another accredited program
helped me identify opportunities for strengthening various aspects
of our own program.
- This provides a good opportunity to network
with other Healthcare Management educators and professionals
and feel connected to the profession in a way that those of us
in an academic setting might otherwise miss.
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