Certificate in Health Professions Education
Description
The Certificate in Health Professions Education awarded by the UofL Graduate School, includes four graduate-level credit courses for a total of 12 credit hours. The program is tailored specifically to meet the needs of educators and/or future educators in the health sciences. Tuition remission applies to all full-time UofL employees.
- Students must be admitted to the UofL Graduate School before enrolling.
- All courses are part of the College of Education graduate curriculum, and may be applied to other degree programs such as a Master of Education. Courses are graded rather than pass/fail.
- The courses follow the UofL Belknap semester schedule, but are offered at the Health Science Center.
- All courses are taught in the evening and are web enhanced with approximately 1/3 of weekly work completed online using the Blackboard ® course management system.
- In the event that course numbers change, students in the cohort will be advised before the enrollment for the coming semester.
Certification Courses
Students enrolled in other education degree programs may substitute a more advanced statistics course for ELFH 600 if they wish to do so.
- ELFH 600 Research Methods: Research problem identification, research methodologies, and introductory statistics.
- ELFH 606 Program Evaluation and Planning: Course and program planning and validation.
- ELFH 661 Adult Development & Learning: basics of instructional design, principles of adult learning, and teaching in the clinical environment.
- ELFH 683 College Teaching: syllabus development, teaching and assessment strategies, students rights, the role of research and publication in the academic arena.
