Reflections on health management education.

Responses of 29 interviews summarise problems in health management and health management education and point to available options in response to these problems. Views are presented regarding accredited graduate programs and their strengths and weaknesses. Recommendations are made on various issues relating to the education of health services managers and include: revising curricula and exploring new methods of teaching health management; developing closer linkages with clinician educators and health managers; undertaking or expanding related missions of continuing professional education and multidisciplinary research and evaluation. Commentary follows in response to these recommendations from the perspectives of education and practice.