Health Professions Education, PhD

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The PhD in Health Professions Education will help meet a national need to equip professionals with the academic doctoral training to educate our future health professionals.

To qualify for the degree of PhD in Health Professions Education, the candiate must:

Comply with all general requirements of Widener University relating to the governance of graduate programs.
Maintain a minimum semester grade point average (GPA) of 3.0 in all coursework.
Have a cumulative overall 3.0 GPA
Complete at least 57 credits of graduate course work (to include a potential 6 transfer credits from prior coursework or 12 credits from the graduate certificates in either health professions education of health professions research) in the Widener PhD in Health Professions Education Program
Complete all of the degree requirements within a total of ten calendar years from the date of first enrollment in the PhD program.
Successfully complete the academic and teaching practicum portions of the curriculum.
Successfully defend their dissertation.

Research Curriculum (30 Credits)

HPE 701 - PhD Bootcamp 3 Credit(s)
HPE 801 - Values and Ethics in Education 3 Credit(s)
ED 703 - Introduction to Educational Research Studies and Process 3 Credit(s)
ED 730 - Writing for Academic Research Purposes 3 Credit(s)
ED 714 - Qualitative Research Methods in Education 3 Credit(s)
ED 850 - Advanced Quantitative Research Methods I 3 Credit(s)
HPE 851 - Applied Research Methods 3 Credit(s)
HPE 901 - Dissertation Seminar 1-3 Credit(s)
HPE 902 - Dissertation Seminar 1-3 Credit(s)
HPE 999 - Dissertation Seminar 1-3 Credit(s)

Teaching/Education Curriculum (27 Credits)

HPE 702 - Academic Faculty Bootcamp 1-3 Credit(s)
NURS 720 - Curriculum Design and Evaluation 3 Credit(s)
ED 691 - Service Learning and Civic Engagement in Higher Education 3 Credit(s)
HPE 875 - Teaching Practicum I (Presentation Development and Deliver) 3 Credit(s)
HPE 710 - Delivering Online Education 1-3 Credit(s)
NURS 820 - Current Issues in Higher Education Organizations 3 Credit(s)
NURS 750 - Assessment, Measurement and Evaluation 3 Credit(s)
NURS 853 - Evidence-Based Teaching Practice 3 Credit(s)
HPE 876 - Teaching Practicum II 3 Credit(s)

Please Note

The program of study that appears here applies to students who were admitted for the summer session of this catalog year and later. Students admitted prior to that term should select the appropriate catalog year of their admission. Choose previous catalogs from the Home, Graduate, or Undergraduate Catalog Page at http://Catalog.widener.edu.