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The Associate of Technical Study in Allied Health Management Technology is a completer program for students who have completed a state-certified allied health program and hold an accredited certificate. This flexible program enables students with an allied health certificate and health care experience to develop the skills necessary for upward mobility. Graduates are prepared to work in variety of health care settings as administrative and supervisory personnel.

Medical and health services managers held about 262,000 jobs in 2006. About 37 percent worked in hospitals, and another 22 percent worked in offices of physicians or in nursing and residential care facilities. Most of the remainder worked in home health care services, Federal Government health care facilities, outpatient care centers, insurance carriers, and community care facilities for the elderly.
(Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics)

Students interested in this program should apply to the Trumbull Campus and must meet with an advisor to be admitted to the program. Upon admission to this program, up to 24 credit hours will be held in escrow on the basis of student’s accredited certification. These credit hours will be awarded upon successful completion of at least 42 additional credit hours of courses selected in accordance with the following curriculum.

Minimum 66 credit hours. Minimum 2.000 cumulative and major GPA.

Learning Outcomes

Students shall be able to:

• Develop a meaningful business vocabulary and understand the nature of a contemporary business. Demonstrate the ability to do business research.
• Understand traditional managerial functions and distinguish between ethical and unethical practices.
• Describe minimum legal requirements and current best practices with regard to human resource management.
• Apply generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) to analyze and record business transactions, prepare financial statements of a company.
• Calculate and interpret key financial ratios; prepare various management reports including budgets and break-even analysis; demonstrate an understanding of the concept of time value of money as it relates to capital budgeting decisions.

In-Class Activities That Support Outcomes

• Discussions, quantitative exercises,  oral presentations quizzes, tests

Outside Class Activities That Support Outcomes

• Stock market project, research paper, business leader interviews, theoretical and quantitative problems;