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Week one covers Walston's opening chapters on strategy in healthcare. Forum 1, worth 100, asks for an applied discussion, and the checklist, introductions and graduate business program assessment are also due.

Week two covers three chapters with the first Group Assurance of Learning Exercise and its peer evaluation. Week three covers a single chapter with the second group exercise and peer evaluation.

Week four is the forum week for three chapters, with Forum 2 worth 100.

Week five covers two chapters and is the heaviest individual week, with the Individual Assurance of Learning Exercise worth 100 and the Competitive Market Benchmark Analysis Exercise worth 50.

Week six covers one chapter with Forum 3. Week seven covers two chapters with the third group exercise and its peer evaluation. Week eight closes with the final chapter and Forum 4.

Linked websites in weeks one and six provide data or readings that the forums in those weeks can draw on.

The program assessment in week one carries no points but is required, and it is best taken early, before the forum and group work begin to fill the week.

Forums are done as short strategic papers: a situation, an analysis using Walston's tools, a recommendation and its execution. A forum on strategic choice might weigh a hospital's options for a declining obstetrics unit, from closure to regional partnership, with the financial and community effects of each.

Replies are drafted after classmates post and test their recommendations against cost, regulation or competition.

For group exercises, once your group divides the work, your share is prepared in the group's format and delivered in time for the group to combine and review it.

The individual exercise is done as a complete strategic analysis: internal and external assessment, strategic options, a recommendation, and an execution plan with owners, timeline and measures.

The benchmark analysis defines a market, chooses competitors, gathers public data on each and explains what the comparison means for your organization's strategy.

Everything arrives early enough to read before you submit.

Where the forums and exercises can share an organization, they do, so by week five the individual exercise draws on analysis you have already posted and the benchmark measures the same organization against its rivals.

Benchmarks use public data.

Exercises use real hospital data.

A healthcare strategist, usually with an MBA or MHA and consulting experience, handles the capstone work.

That person has prepared market analyses and strategic plans for real boards, and knows which data are public, which are reliable and how executives use them.

They draw on the whole program, not just strategy, linking recommendations to finance, workforce, quality, law and operations as a capstone requires.

A second reviewer checks every figure and reads each item for logic and APA 7.

One person stays on your capstone from Forum 1 to Forum 4, so the organization you discuss and the strategy you favor never drift.

Your name stays with the coordinator, and workplace details are kept general.

They have also sat through the kind of strategy retreat the capstone imitates, where a plan is debated line by line, so they know which claims draw questions and how to support them in advance.

It gets hard because nearly every item is worth 100 points, so there is no low-stakes week to recover in.

It gets hard in the group weeks, when your share must be done early enough for classmates to integrate it, and when teammates' delays affect your grade.

Week five is the crunch, with the individual exercise and the benchmarking analysis due together.

It gets hard when strategy stays abstract. Faculty want recommendations tied to a real organization's numbers, competitors and constraints.

It gets hard at the end of a degree, when motivation is low and other commitments are high.

Each of these is planned for, with week five prepared from week three and group shares delivered early.

It also gets hard to find current figures. Market share and price data are scattered across state reports, filings and hospital websites, and gathering them takes longer than students expect.

Forum 1 is ready on the first day if you hand the course over early. Later forums reach you several days before each window, and replies follow classmates' posts.

Group shares arrive two or three days after your group assigns them.

The individual exercise and the benchmark analysis arrive about five days before the end of week five.

Cost reflects the items you hand over and the time left; the program assessment and peer evaluations are never part of it.

Midway arrivals are fine; the work carries on from what you have already turned in.

Students who want to write the forums themselves often hand over week five only, which covers 150 points of individual work.

If your group finishes its division of work late, tell the coordinator, and your share is moved ahead of other items so the group is not held up.