Dec 12, 2024  
2025-2026 Graduate Catalog (Edited Version) 
    
2025-2026 Graduate Catalog (Edited Version)

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


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.

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