Prepare to Lead in Health Care:
Transform Your Career, Your Organization
& Health Care Delivery

The Master of Health Care Delivery Science (MHCDS) degree at Dartmouth College offers physician and executive leaders the strong foundation and the advanced skills and knowledge they need to design and lead crucial transformations within their organizations and across the health care industry.

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  • The 12-month degree program allows you to advance your career while gaining an exceptional Ivy-League education.
  • Students at Dartmouth share perspectives and learn from a tightly-focused, highly relevant curriculum that brings the best of an MBA and an MPH.
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  • Our students work in vitally important positions with strenuous demands on their time. They come from diverse backgrounds within health care, from physicians to administrators to policymakers and insurance executives. They are drawn to Dartmouth to grow new capabilities with immediate payoff and long term impact on their careers and on the organizations in which they work.
  • The hybrid structure of the Master of Health Care Delivery Science (MHCDS) program blends brief on-campus periods of networking and relationship building with flexible, online coursework—to allow you to develop leadership skills and cutting-edge knowledge without compromising your career.
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  • Health Care Management Education at Dartmouth is home to two master's programs. Learn which will help you achieve your goals.
  • The Master of Health Care Delivery Science (MHCDS) is for experienced physicians and health executives who need new training and skills to design change in their organization. The curriculum focuses on the gaps health professionals often have in their education with courses that develop competencies in health care strategy and innovation, aligning systems and people, decision-making and leadership.
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  • The Master of Health Administration (MHA) is geared towards early and mid-career health professionals who are seeking to become leaders and pursue advanced careers in health care. Designed for those in their first decade of professional experience, students learn foundational skills and build competencies in accounting and finance, health systems and economics, and operations management.
    Learn about the MHA Degree

Is the MHCDS program the right one for you?

Join the Best Minds in Health Care

The best teaching and research faculty from the Tuck School of Business and the Geisel School of Medicine blends with a cohort of professional students with their own expertise to create an incubator and accelerator of innovative solutions to the challenges faced in health care today.
  • Class of 2023

    Tim Ekpo, DO, MHCDS

    Medical Director Joint Replacement Services
    Henry Ford Health System

    “The MHCDS program has world class faculty that are committed to teaching at the highest level. The program truly put together an amazing cohort of experienced executive leaders in their field. Over the course of the year, we learned just as much from each other’s professional experiences as we did from our studies.”

  • Faculty

    Katherine Milligan, MBA, PhD

    Associate Dean Health Care Management Education
    Dartmouth College

    “My faculty colleagues at Geisel and Tuck cherish the opportunity to work with such talented and experienced students. The brief residential sessions are intense by design as they help build the tight community of students and faculty, which makes the online portion of the program so effective.”

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