Graduates from all over the world of former MBA courses "International Hospital Management", jointly offered from Nations HealthCareer School of Management gGmbH and the top ranked private university HfB – Business School of Finance and Management, Germany, will meet for their very first Alumni symposium in Frankfurt/Main, Germany from 28th till 30th October 2005.

International experts will speak and discuss on "International Management Aproaches to Health Services: Accreditation, Certification, Quality and Performance Management". Among the speakers there will be experts from Germany, France, Austria, Italy, UK, Singapore, USA, and the Middle East. The Alumni Conference will complete with a presentation on the research activities of the Fresenius Chair and Institute of International Hospital Management at HfB and its new Ph.D. Programme.

The Alumni conference has been scheduled to coincide with the start of the 7th International Hospital Management Course and the graduation of the Spring Course 2004, all of them taking place in Frankfurt/Main, Germany at the same time. The internationally accredited part-time MBA programme foresees eight attendance modules, each lasting 8,5 days including intensive site visits to best-practice hospitals, in Germany, UK, Austria, UAE (Dubai), Singapore and Japan (in rotation with China) as well as an optional excursion to the USA, and several e-learning units. The participants / graduates come from Asia, Middle East and Europe have on average 8-10 years professional experience in healthcare industry.

The next MBA course Spring 2006 will start on 28 April 2006.