Health Professions Education - MS
Overview
The MS-Health Professions Education Program provides a unique course of study for clinician/educators to gain core competencies while becoming innovative leaders in the education of health professionals.
Guided by recent reforms in health professions education, all courses are delivered in an interprofessional learning environment. This innovative 33-credit MS program builds expertise in teaching, educational research, curriculum design, program evaluation and leadership.
Students in the MS HPEd proceed through the program with a cohort of health professionals from across the health care spectrum, including physicians, nurses, pharmacists, occupational and physical therapists, speech language pathologists, and others.
This rich variety of backgrounds brings a wide range of voices and perspectives into seminars, workshops, and project discussions, creating a truly interprofessional experience. Participants will develop knowledge, skills, and abilities that are immediately applicable and relevant to education within the context of your single profession as well as broader team-based settings.
By joining this program, students become part of a community of scholars who are committed to improving education for the next generation of health professionals.
Program Design
You can customize our curriculum to fit your needs by concentrating your study in the areas of teaching and learning, research methods, simulation-based education, or policy and management.
At the start of the program, students identify an area of interest or a research question to be translated into the MS-level scholarly project.
Through a carefully crafted sequence of courses, students develop and refine their project to demonstrate mastery of the competencies related to the scholarship of teaching and educational research.
Our unique partnerships with the Harvard Macy Institute and the Center for Medical Simulation enable you to incorporate those experiences into your training, including access to unparalleled faculty and resources.
The program’s flexible format is designed to meet the needs of working professionals by offering 30 of 33 credits in fully online courses.
The on-site component of the program begins with a 3-day intensive seminar held at our campus in Charlestown, MA in September during your first year of the program.
The on-site component of the program continues with 3-day intensive seminars with all continuing and graduating students held in Charlestown in June of each year.
Admission Requirements
To qualify for admission, prospective applicants should be health professionals.
Admissions decisions are based upon:
- a written personal statement
- written recommendations from former professors/clinical supervisors/colleagues
- a review of previous academic work through transcripts.
NOTE: The program does not require GRE scores from applicants who have already earned a graduate degree.
Please see the admissions web page for application deadlines.
For questions or more information, please contact the Program Director Roger A. Edwards, ScD.