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Article: Sloan Program cultivates leaders in health care: the College of Human Ecology's Sloan Program in Health Administration educates leaders for an industry as complex as it is idiosyncratic.
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- Human Ecology
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- May 1, 2006
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Why do students choose the Sloan Program in Health Administration? "They think of health care as a meaningful way to make a living," says Will White, director of the Sloan Program and professor of Policy Analysis and Management. "Health care is certainly not the highest paying industry. The students who choose it are drawn to an industry that takes care of people and makes a difference."
Students in this two-year professional degree program learn administrative skills; familiarity with the organization of the health care system and public policy issues; the tools of public health; the finesse to work with doctors, nurses, and others; and, sometimes, the ...