Fellowship Focus & Benefits

Health Sciences Fellowship: A Focus on Strategy

The Health Sciences Fellow is given privileged access to the inner workings of the Health Sciences Strategy team. The strategy team is a group of highly motivated and technically proficient strategic engagement managers, analysts, and data scientists who function as a thinktank and internal consulting group across the health system. Daily activities include data analysis and visualization, narrative creation, engagement management, and facilitation of strategic discussions. As the Health Sciences Fellow, you are expected and encouraged to become a part of this team, although fellows are also empowered to pursue opportunities in other areas.

Strategy work provides fellows the opportunity to:

• help advance longitudinal engagements core to health system improvement and growth,
• develop analytic skills and a deeper understand of healthcare data and informatics,
• learn how to think theoretically and critically about health care and health care business issues,
• interface with clinical units and health system leaders, and
• gain exposure to the theory and practice of business strategy.

Fellows will have the opportunity to observe executive-level meetings, be mentored by leaders in academic medicine, and work on projects that help advance the health system.

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Program Benefits

The program provides the fellow an opportunity to complete project work and rotations throughout the year to enhance and develop communications, project management, organizational, and leadership skills. 

Career Opportunities After Fellowship Completion

Upon completion of the fellowship, you will be prepared for a wide variety of career opportunities, including working within healthcare organizations and as consultants. Our alumni have moved on to leadership roles both at University of Utah Health and other leading health systems nationwide.

Selected projects completed by previous Health Sciences administrative fellows

• Women’s health strategy initiative
• Home-based inpatient services
• Center for Clinical and Translational Sciences grant renewal
• Alternative payment models
• Patient-reported outcomes
• College of Nursing strategic planning retreat
• Assessing costs & value of a pediatric residency program
• “Imagine Perfect Care” employee engagement & patient experience initiative
• Be Well Utah annual health fair
• School of Medicine strategic planning retreat
• Pharmacy cost dashboard
• Marketing document describing clinical departments for recruitment and advertising
• Health Sciences Finance reports library

Pay & Benefits

Administrative fellows receive a salary competitive with leading administrative fellowship programs across the nation along with a competitive benefits package.

The Administrative Fellow also receives financial support to attend one conference of his/her choice over the course of the fellowship year.