MedXellence is an MHS-relevant, actively managed course with a continuously
updated curriculum. It uses many of the same expert educational faculty and powerful
teaching methods that have established the Uniformed Services University as a leader in
federal medicine education. By continuously working with the MHS to design MedXellence, we
strive to deliver the most relevant curriculum, expand upon the existing competencies of
MHS executives, and develop tailored leadership strategies. The MedXellence course places a
focus on decision support tools, including the TRICARE Operations Center (TOC), MHS Population Health Portal, and the Tri-Service Business Planning
Tool, among others.
A goal of the Military Health System (MHS) is to provide high quality, cost
effective care in a manner that provides high satisfaction for all care-givers and
beneficiaries. The provision of such care requires that MHS leaders have the leadership
skills and decision-making ability to facilitate the delivery of these service attributes
and outcomes. These leadership and decision-making skills depend upon the leaders having
access to and the ability to use relevant, timely, and valid information. The data from
which this information is derived exists across the MHS, and there are a variety of tools
to gather, analyze, and report the needed information. A primary function of the USUHS
MedXellence course is to serve as a major educational resource, and to supply awareness of
these resources to executive leaders across the enterprise. MedXellence is designed to
educate leaders to ask the right questions, obtain the appropriate data, and lead
organizational improvement.
Overall Goal: MTF Leaders will increase their competence and efficacy
in fulfillment of the JMESI criteria and organizational excellence.
The course is composed of inter-related modules that emphasize learning
through web-based course pre-work, classroom lectures, workshops, an interwoven case study,
and small group educational activities. MedXellence educates MHS executives on current MHS
issues through integrating knowledge about the following competencies as prescribed by the
Joint Medical Executive Skills Group:
- Strategic Planning
- Organizational Design
- Decision Making
- Leadership
- Financial Management
- Ethical Decision Making
- Personal & Professional Ethics
- Organizational Ethics
- Epidemiological Methods
- Integrated Health Care Delivery Systems
- Quality Management
- Qualitative & Quantitative Analysis
- Outcome Measurements
- Patient Safety