Healthcare Education, Certificate

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Students will benefit from increasing their knowledge of critical concepts including techniques for conducting educational research; current practices of allied health education; foundations of adult education. It is expected that students will:

Examine the implications of adult development theories for education, with particular attention to the increasing numbers of adult students.
Explore the foundations of adult education with a review of the philosophical concepts and their application to the practice of educating adults.
Learn the history of health care education and current practices including classroom, laboratory, and clinical allied health education.
Understand research methods in education so they can apply recent developments in their own teaching environments.
Enhance their ability to identify issues among the health care community

Curriculum

ALLH 550 - Health Care Education 3 Credit(s)
ALLH 583 - Education of Adults from a Developmental Perspective 3 Credit(s)
ED 510 - Applications of Educational Research 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.