Section One: Forces Shaping Health Care Delivery.1. Historical aspects of health care delivery.2. Health care economics and policy.3. Health care politics and policy.Section Two: Physician Management Skills.

4. Leadership and organizational behavior in medicine.5. Human resource management.6. Strategic management.7. Personal behavior in medical management.

Section Three: Economic Aspects of Managed Care.8. Health care accounting and finance.9. Microeconomics of health care.10. Capital finance management.Section Four: Medical, Scientific, and Legal Considerations in Health Care Delivery.

11. Basic statistical principles applied to health care.12. Epidemiology and health outcomes.13. Health law.14. Ethics in health management.

15. Quality issues, outcomes, and patient satisfaction.16. Assessment of medical technology.17. Health care information systems.Section Five: Business Aspects of Medical Management.18.

Medical risk management and contracting.19. Marketing issues in managed care.