The Emergency Medicine Administrative Fellowship is a two-year program. Each year is divided into four three-month blocks. During each block, fellows complete training in both administrative and MBA tracks. The program concludes at the end of the final block in the second year.
Year 1 Curriculum
Year 2 Curriculum
Year 1 Curriculum
Year 1
Block 1
July – November
Administrative Curriculum – Introduction to Operations
- Didactics: Patient flow, throughput metrics, reviewing UF ED Daily activity reports with Medical Director/Senior Fellow
- Observation of Flow: ED Director rounds, observe flow in the ED with attention to a particular area selected by a Medical Director/Senior Fellow
- Meetings: ED Clinical Operations, ED Nurse Manager monthly meetings
- Education: Admin Journal Club (optional until December)
MBA
- Economics of Business Decisions
- Financial Accounting
- Professional Writing
- Introduction to Managerial Statistics Problems
- Methods in Marketing Management
Year 1
Block 2
December and January
Administrative Curriculum – Quality Improvement & Patient Safety, Operations Research
- Didactics: Hospital Quality, Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) web‐based instructional modules on quality improvement, research fundamentals
- Meetings: Clinical Directors Quality Meeting, Trauma Quality
- Education: Admin Journal Club, Admin Scholarly Project
MBA
- *Introduction to Managerial Statistics Problems
- *Methods in Marketing Management
Year 1
Block 3
February, March, and April
Administrative Curriculum – Customer Relations, Patient Satisfaction, Risk Management
- Didactics: Patient Experience, Patient Satisfaction Scores, Complaint & Risk Management, Root Cause Analysis
- Meetings: Patient Experience Team, Patient Family Advisory Council (PFAC), Risk Management, UF Health Legal Team, and RCA
- Education: Admin Journal Club, ACEP QI Challenge, ACEP Practice Essentials
MBA
- Organizational Behavior
- Financial Management
Year 1
Block 4
May and June
Administrative Curriculum – Virtual Health & Informatics
- Didactics: Administrative design and medical direction of a telehealth platform, Interactive Informatics Workshop on EHR, AI Practice Integration
- Meetings: EPIC meetings, Chief Medical Information Officer, QPSi Leadership
- Education: Admin Journal Club
MBA
- Brand Management (through July)
- Corporate Finance (through July)
- Global Immersion Experience
Year 2 Curriculum
Year 2
Block 1
July – September
Administrative Curriculum – Billing and Coding, Revenue Cycle, ED Finance
- Didactics: Billing and coding, reimbursements
- Meetings: Finance Committee, monthly Dept Leadership meetings with the Vice Chair of Administrative Affairs and Associate Director of Finance & Administration
- Education: Admin Journal Club, Residency lecture
MBA
- Strategy and Tactics of Pricing
- Managerial Accounting
Year 2
Block 2
October, November, December
Administrative Curriculum – Disaster Planning and Preparedness (October)
- Didactics: Disaster and MCI Readiness
- Meetings: ED Emergency Preparedness Small Group, Hospital Emergency Preparedness Committee
Administrative Curriculum – Process Improvement, Supply Chain (Nov and Dec)
- Didactics: Lean principles in the ED, the front end, strategies to improve flow
- Meetings: ED operations, Length of Stay Collaborative, MVP Meeting
- Education: Process improvement project, Admin Journal Club
MBA
- Strategy and Tactics of Pricing
- Managerial Accounting
- Organizational Staffing
- Operations Management
Year 2
Block 3
Administrative Curriculum – ED Observation and ACEP Accelerate
- ACEP Accelerate Experience, Observation Benchmarks and Pathway Creation
Administrative Curriculum – Quality Improvement & Patient Safety, Operations Research
- Didactics: Hospital Quality, Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) web‐ based instructional modules on quality improvement, research fundamentals
- Meetings: Clinical Directors Quality Meeting, Trauma Quality
- Education: Admin Journal Club, Admin Scholarly Project
MBA
- Organizational Staffing
- Operations Management
- Emerging Markets
- Finance
- Global Strategic Management
Year 2
Block 4
April, May, and June
Hospital Leadership
- Didactics: Capstone with Hospital Leadership
- Meetings: C‐Suite
- Education: Admin Journal Club
Health Policy
- Didactics: Federal & Leadership and Advocacy
- Meetings: Florida ACEP Advocacy event
- Education: Admin Journal Club
MBA
- Emerging Markets
- Finance
- Global Strategic Management