title: Hospital Chief Executive Officer Perspectives on Health Care Administration Academic Preparations.
abstract: A dynamic health care industry continues to call upon health care leaders to possess not one but multiple competencies. A post hoc review of 3 secondary data sets (previous parallel surveys administered in 2007, 2011, and 2015) was conducted to determine what preferred academic program of study (master of health administration, master of business administration, or a clinical degree preparation) may exist by current hospital executives and potential trending of executive degree preparations over time. In addition, any relationships among individual hospital administrator, individual personal characteristics, and their preferred degree preparations were also investigated at an exploratory level. Findings suggest and support the researchers' hypothesis that the preferred degree preference for a career in hospital administration (master of business administration, master of health administration, or clinical) is highly dependent on an individual executive's graduate degree earned. Many areas for future research are identified from this study that include additional survey analysis and future research questions related to initial findings.
authors.affiliation: Author Affiliations: School of Health Administration, College of Health Professions, Texas State University, San Marcos (Dr Lieneck); and Health Care Management (Dr Collins), Radiologic Sciences (Mr McKinnies), and Radiography (Ms Watts), School of Allied Health, College of Applied Sciences and Arts, Southern Illinois University Carbondale.
authors.forename: Cristian
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Lieneck
authors.forename: Sandra
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Collins
authors.forename: Richard
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: McKinnies
authors.forename: Sandra
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Watts
mesh_terms: D002322:Career Mobility; D016542:Chief Executive Officers, Hospital / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D004500:Education, Graduate / Q000706:statistics & numerical data* / Q000639:trends; D006298:Health Services Administration; D006739:Hospital Administration / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires