Healthcare Professions Education Certificate
Enhance Your Healthcare Educational Skills. Move Into Healthcare Education.Online | 1 Year | Certificate for Academic Credit
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Our Health Professions Education 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.
HPE Certificate Curriculum
Deepen and develop healthcare education skills. Prepare to become a more engaged and effective instructor.

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.
Semester Starts
Winter 2024
Final Application Deadline
Semester Start
Summer 2024
Priority Application Deadline
Final Application Deadline
Semester Start
Fall 2024
Priority Application Deadline
Final Application Deadline
Semester Start
ADMISSION REQUIREMENTS
- A minimum of a bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution
Certificate program candidates can include:
- 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
Tuition
Cost of Attendance
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
UNIVERSITY ACCREDITATION
Rocky Mountain University of Health Professions is accredited by the Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities (8060 165th Avenue NE Ste 100, Redmond, WA 98052-3981), an institutional accrediting body recognized by the Secretary of the US Department of Education.