Healthcare Professions Education
Our Health Professions Education Certificate
Hear from Dr. Malissa Martin, the Vice Provost of Academic Affairs, about the HPE Certificate.
HPE Certificate Highlights
Move into Healthcare Education
Are you interested in becoming a healthcare instructor? Our HPE Certificate (any of the individual courses within the program) will prepare you to teach with confidence. Learn how to become a designer of learning. Develop the necessary understanding and skillsets to create an effective learning experience for students.
If you are a current healthcare professional (including athletic trainers, nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists, physician assistants, speech pathologists, radiologists, and community health center instructors) who wants to instruct future healthcare professionals in higher education and impact the healthcare world, you will find the Healthcare Professions Education Certificate instrumental in gaining healthcare education knowledge, strategies, and skills.
Increase Training & Development as a Current Educator
Are you already a current healthcare educator? Our HPE Certificate will increase your current education skill set with relevant healthcare professions education skills taught through meaningful and purposeful class assignments. You will be able to immediately apply what you learn to your current instruction situations. The HPE Certificate is a great resource and option to support continuing faculty training and development.
Some of the skill sets you will develop further include:
- Understanding your students’ learning preference and designing lessons to meet those learning preferences
- Developing learning outcomes from a backward-design approach using active, engaging learning activities that are meaningful and authentic to the learner
- Creating course and lesson plans, including online, blended, and face-to-face learning curriculum development based upon a broad focus of a dynamic healthcare and economical society
Evaluating and assessing student performance founded upon evidence-based best practices of teaching and learning - Learning clinical education techniques and strategies to support both didactic and clinical educational settings
- Expanding current and innovative technology skills to support teaching and student learning
Designed for Working Healthcare Professionals or Educators
Our HPE Certificate is designed especially for working healthcare professionals and educators. With a completely-online program designed to fit with busy schedules, and that has three start dates a year, the HPE Certificate can fit your schedule.
Our HPE Certificate is designed to benefit individuals who fall into the following areas:
- Preparing to enter an instructor role as a higher education faculty member in a healthcare education professions academic setting
- Looking to refresh healthcare education professions knowledge or increase their current education skills
- Wanting to utilize an individual course or entire program for a group of faculty to support faculty training and development efforts within an individual department or organization
- Seeking employment in a setting of healthcare education, community healthcare education programs, and healthcare clinical education venues
- Professionals who teach continuing education or community education
Interprofessional Program Experience
Learn in an interprofessional program. Both students and instructors are from a variety of healthcare professions and are either former or current clinicians. Interact with healthcare professionals from a wide range of disciplines, deeping your learning and networking experience.
Curriculum
Learning Design
Dive deep into learning theory, design, application, assessment, and evaluation. Prepare to incorporate a learner-centered approach to course development and instructional delivery.
Evidence-Based Learning
Learn to utilize evidence-based practices for healthcare professions education. Apply a wide variety of learning methods to ensure that your learning communities are able to completely grasp even the most complex concepts.
Clinical Education
Dive deep into quantitative and qualitative inquiry. Learn methods and applications as you examine traditions, trends, and emerging areas of practice. Understand how research informs practice.
Courses
Core Courses
Code
Course
Credits
HPE 760Instructional Technology: Design, Theory, & Application3
This course explores the history and theory of instructional technology used in educational settings. Focus is on identifying, discussing and comparing various instructional technology utilized in the design and delivery of online, blended, and traditional classroom learning environments. Best practices of current instructional technologies applied in higher education classrooms are systematically designed, created, shared, and reviewed.
HPE 740Learning Theory & Design3
This course incorporates a learner centered approach to course development and instructional delivery based on the best evidence of how people learn. Students will demonstrate both traditional and innovative instructional techniques and strategies for teaching in didactic settings based upon the evidence-base of best teaching practices.
HPE 670Learning Assessment & Evaluation3
This course examines a variety of assessment models and techniques used to evaluate student classroom performance, student clinical performance, instructor performance and educational programs. Students will design and execute assessment plans, interpret assessment data and develop continuous improvement plans.
Electives
Code
Course
Credits
HPE 752Curriculum Design for Healthcare Professions3
Students will learn how effective health professions curricula must integrate the basic and clinical sciences, connect didactic to experiential learning, be competency-based and time-variable, include andragogic underpinnings and approaches of delivery, and create meaningful program outcomes and assessment opportunities that verify quality and excellence. In addition timely issues such as the curricular incorporation of clinical experiences/education, the sociocultural aspects of healthcare, and pertinent accreditation issues and constraints for healthcare professions will be addressed.
Offered Winter & Fall Semester
HPE 620Clinical Education Experiential Design & Application for Healthcare Professions3
This course addresses the many issues germane to experiential or clinical education in the healthcare professions by reviewing the design, implementation and assessment of clinical experience in the healthcare fields. Among the topics to be covered include supervisory policies and practices, communication, feedback, developing clinical expertise and reasoning skills, professionalism, student learning documentation and mapping, preceptor/supervisor training and development, and the role of entrust able professional activities, competencies and milestones in student clinician development.
Offered Winter Semester
Semester Dates
Winter 2025
Type
Date
Summer 2025
Type
Date
Fall 2025
Type
Date
What is the difference?
Priority Deadline
While admission decisions are provided on a rolling basis (decisions provided immediately after the application is reviewed), submitting your application by the priority deadline provides the most time for review.
The sooner applications are submitted and completed, the better the opportunity to review, accept, and enroll for the desired semester start.
Final Deadline
All applications and supplemental materials must be submitted by this date for the start of the upcoming semester. Any application submitted after this date will be moved to the following start date for that program.
Admission Requirements
- A minimum of a bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution
- Individuals seeking to enter faculty or instructor positions in higher education or junior colleges
- Clinical education directors
- Current faculty or instructors looking to gain or refresh skills
- Individuals who lead community education programs
Faculty
Malissa Martin
EdD, AT-Ret
Vice Provost Academic Affairs, Dean College of Health Science Lifelong Learning PhD Faculty
Beth Kinslow
DSc, ATC
Faculty, Health Professions Education Certificate
Jan Reese
MS-ITLS
Faculty, Doctor of Philosophy in Health Sciences
Kim Shibinski
EdD
Faculty, Health Professions Education Certificate
Kelly Simmons
DNP, RN, CNE
Faculty, Health Professions Education Certificate
Scott Heinrichs
EdD, ATC
Faculty, Health Professions Education Certificate
Michelle Webb
EdD, OTD
Faculty, Health Professions Education Certificate
Tuition & Fees
2024
2025
Program Fees Details
This program is not eligible for Federal Student Loans. Private Loan options are available.
More Information
Locked-in Tuition
Rocky Mountain University offers guaranteed tuition rates while completing your graduate degree. Our programs have a cost per credit rate lock once you are enrolled. Locked-in tuition helps you see your total cost from start to finish. If you defer to a later cohort start, you may be subject to an increased rate.