Health Professions Education Certificate
Overview
This certificate program is designed for experienced current or prospective health profession educators – clinical instructors, faculty, and preceptors – to prepare you to teach health professions students in experiential and clinical lab settings.
The broad-based, interprofessional program is designed to create maximum flexibility for busy professionals. The program:
- Offers both a 9-credit Certificate of Completion and a 15-credit Certificate of Advanced Study
- Includes a concentration in health professions simulation
- Is part-time
- Has all courses online and mentored practica can be arranged in your community
This program prepares health profession clinicians to teach in academic and clinical settings. It provides learners with the educational principles needed to integrate their clinical acumen and knowledge with didactic and theoretical tools to teach others.
Enhancing Health Professionals' Expertise
The MGH Institute recognizes that teaching and learning occurs across a wide variety of settings and levels. The Health Professions Education Certificates offer the opportunity to increase effectiveness as an educator in clinical settings, classrooms, online classrooms, as well as in the lab.
As life-long learners, health professionals engage in formal and informal teaching and learning which continues into post-professional and post-graduate life. Participants in this program build a knowledge base of educational principles and methodologies that is translated into teaching projects specific to professional roles and interests.
The program takes advantage of the latest technologies for teaching health professionals. For example, clinical simulation provides opportunities to learn, evaluate, and test new methods of care.
Also, by participating in the program, students become part of a community of scholars who are committed to improving how to educate the next generation of health profession leaders.