Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine/Master of Business Administration D.O./M.B.A.

Since June 2001, Rockhurst has provided its Master of Business Administration as a featured component in a DO/MBA Dual Degree Program offered with Kansas City University of Medicine and Biosciences (KCUMB). The MBA in Health Care Leadership is designed to complement KCUMB students’ medical education by helping develop physician-managers of competence and conscience, with the business management skills necessary to provide quality holistic care in a dynamic health care environment. In 2018, the Helzberg School of Management began offering the dual degree at KCUMB’s Joplin campus as well.

KCUMB students are accepted into the DO/MBA Dual Degree Program during their first year of medical school. DO/MBA students complete their coursework as a cohort over the next three years, they taking 36 hours of prerequisite and MBA coursework.

All DO/MBA students must adhere to the Helzberg School of Management  Graduate Business Programs Standards and Policies.

Admission Requirements

To apply for admission to the DO/MBA dual-degree program, you should submit the following documentation:

1. Apply for Admission Online — You will choose the Graduate Business Application Type, select “No” for the program being entirely online, and then choose the DO/MBA program interest for the upcoming term.

2. Online Authorization Form — Complete this AFTER you finish step 1. This online form is required for KCUMB and Rockhurst to share your educational records and information. 

3. Submit official transcripts from your bachelor degree awarded institution. Electronic transcripts may be sent to hcl@rockhurst.edu. Official transcripts may be mailed to:

   Rockhurst University
   Graduate Business Programs
   Conway Hall, Room 201F
   1100 Rockhurst Road
   Kansas City, MO 64110-2561

Health Care Leadership Program Goals:

• Leadership: Demonstrate personal responsibility and awareness of self and others; build effective teams; influence and enable others to improve patient care and policy in a healthcare setting.
• Ethical Behavior and Corporate Social Responsibility: Analyze ethical and corporate social responsibility issues in context and implement appropriate action[s]; relate concepts of access, quality, and value to the healthcare environment.
• Business Skills & Knowledge: Integrate and apply skills & knowledge across business disciplines to effectively manage in dynamic healthcare environments.
• International / Global: Demonstrate and apply global (cultural, political, historical, geographic, environmental, and economic) perspectives to Assessment Cycle.
• Information Analysis and Application:Identify, access, analyze and synthesize relevant healthcare information to optimize effective decision-making.
• Communication: Communicate appropriately with internal and external stakeholders, and create an environment where effective communication can occur.

Health Care Leadership Student Learning Outcomes:

• Apply leadership theory and organizational behavior to organizational contexts (including health care) and make suggestions for improve organizational effectiveness.
• Articulate a plan for future development as a leader.
• Analyze various business situations involving decisions from a health care organization perspective considering impact and consequences on all stakeholders.
• Apply foundational knowledge in accounting, finance, management and marketing, including how they are related to the health care environment.
• Identify forces of globalization and make recommendations on how they affect multinational corporations including potential emerging markets, cross cultural management issues, institutional (risk) factors, current fluctuations, and strategic business entry strategies.
• Analyze, interpret, and develop market assessment that includes competitive structure and rivalry, financial position, growth strategies, and external market factors.
• Analyze both primary and secondary sources to make business recommendations in health care as well as to support those conclusions.
• Effectively communicate ideas, problems, and data through written and oral communication.