Program Description
The MS in Health Professions Education is a 30-credit, fully online, interprofessional master program designed to prepare leaders in health professions education, leveraging evidence-based approaches, educational best practices, and Jefferson’s technology-rich environment.
The innovative curriculum includes courses in the traditional core areas for health professions education programs and novel courses covering Education Law, Diversity, Simulation and Inter-professional Education.
Learning Goals/Outcomes
- Incorporate understanding of pedagogical principles into health science teaching
- Design and implement curricula in various formats including for classroom, clinical and virtual teaching.
- Effectively integrate technology into education.
- Demonstrate understanding of approaches to student assessment and program evaluation.
- Apply evidence-based principles to inform education and teaching practices.
- Become an effective leader in graduate health professional/medical education.
- Apply inter-professional and collaborative teaching models.
- Employ simulation education for health professions.
Curriculum: 30 Credits, Two Years
Code | Title | Credits |
---|---|---|
Required Courses | ||
HPE 510 | Adult Learn in the Health Prof | 2 |
GC 752 | Curriculum & Instructional Des | 2 |
GC 753 | Program Assessment & Eval | 2 |
HPE 530 | 2 | |
HPE 601 | 2 | |
HPE 520 | Sim for Health Prof Educ | 3 |
HPS 620 | Interprof Edu Collab Prac Hlth | 3 |
HPE 700 | 1 | |
HPE 701 | 1 | |
Electives | ||
HPE 650 | ||
HPE 615 | ||
HPE 625 | ||
HPE630 | ||
GC 751 | Instructional Tech & Learning | 2 |
HPE 640 | ||
HPE 651 | ||
HPS/CRS/PER 600 | ||
HPE 699 | ||
Total Credits | 20 |