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).
- 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.