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).
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.

Curriculum

Research Curriculum (30 Credits)

HPE 701 - PhD Bootcamp 3 Credit(s)
ED 703 - Introduction to Educational Research Studies and Process 3 Credit(s)
NURS 724 - Scholarly Writing for the Discipline 3 Credit(s)
or
HPE 730 - Academic Writing for Research Purposes 3 Credit(s)
ED 714 - Qualitative Research Methods in Education 3 Credit(s)
or
HSED 714 - Qualitative Research Methods 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 3 Credit(s)
HPE 902 - Dissertation Seminar 3 Credit(s)
HPE 999 - Dissertation Seminar 1-3 Credit(s) (Minimum Two Semesters Six Credits)

Teaching/Education Curriculum (27 Credits)

HPE 702 - Academic Faculty Bootcamp 3 Credit(s)
HPE 710 - Delivering Online Education 3 Credit(s)
HPE 791 - Service Learning and Civic Engagement in Higher Education 3 Credit(s)
HPE 801 - Values and Ethics in Health Professions Education 3 Credit(s)
HPE 875 - Teaching Practicum I 3 Credit(s)
HPE 876 - Teaching Practicum II 3 Credit(s)
Choose Three
ALLH 630 - Assessment in Allied Health Care Education 3 Credit(s)
HPE 820 - Curriculum Design and Assessment for the Health Professions 3 Credit(s)
NURS 720 - Curriculum Design and Evaluation 3 Credit(s)
NURS 820 - Current Issues in Higher Education Organizations 3 Credit(s)
NURS 853 - Evidence-Based Teaching Practice 3 Credit(s)
PA 655 - Evidence-Informed Decisions in Public and Nonprofit Sectors 3 Credit(s)
PA 681 - Nonprofit Advancement 3 Credit(s)
PA 684 - Strategic Communications for the Nonprofit Sector 3 Credit(s)
PA 687 - Fundraising for Nonprofits 3 Credit(s)

Total Credits: 57

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.