HLT POL 215Applied Methods for Improvement/Implementation Science

Health Policy and Management · 4 units · Graduate courses (200-299)

(Formerly numbered 215B.) Planning and management of improvement programs in current work of students and future roles as change agents and leaders of health-care systems. Training in skills and analytic methods for applying improvement science in clinical settings and health systems. Completion of improvement projects that demonstrate student competence in improvement science. Emphasis on case studies and applications so students gain skills in improvement project design and implementation. Analyses of cases, individual improvement projects, and class discussions to allow students to apply this knowledge to organizational examples.

Letter grading.

When it runs

Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.

Requisites

UCLA lists no requisites for this course.

Requires

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Nothing — this is an entry point.

Unlocks

What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.

HLT POL 215

  • HLT POL 220Research Methods for Improvement/Implementation Science

1 course lists this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 1 course over 1 level. Every course here opens its own tree.