CAHP 310 MEDICAL TERMINOLOGY 2 Credit Hours
Students planning on entering a health care career need to be introduced to medical language. The asynchronous course will serve an introduction as it teaches students to analyze the basic word structure of medical terms. Students will learn the meaning of individual parts, common prefixes and suffixes, as well as combining vowels. Students will be able to understand new terms knowing the meanings of individual parts, prefixes, suffixes, and how medical terms are structured.
Typically Offered: FALL
CAHP 360 PATHOGENIC MEDICAL MICROBIOLOGY 4 Credit Hours
This course is an introduction to medical microbiology and infectious disease. Topics will focus on the most common pathogenic microorganisms and the infections they cause in humans. The course concentrates primarily on bacteriology but includes introductory coverage of parasitology, mycology, and virology. The course provides opportunities for the student to enhance their knowledge base regarding laboratory functions by interpreting laboratory tests to diagnose infectious diseases.
Prerequisite: Previous Biology or permission from the instructor
Typically Offered: SPRING
CAHP 413 STATISTICS FOR THE HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONAL 3 Credit Hours
This upper level course in the College of Allied Health Professions is designed to provide allied health professions students with in overview of biostatistical methods needed in the design of medical studies and the analysis of health care data. The major topics to be covered include types of data, descriptive statistics and plots, theoretical distributions, probability, estimation, hypothesis testing, and one-way analysis of variance. A brief introduction to correlation and univariate linear regression will also be given. The course is intended for health professions students to gain an understanding of basic statistical methods for both continuous and dichotomous data.
Prerequisite: Permission of instructor.
Typically Offered: FALL
CAHP 415 COMMUNICATION FOR INDIVIDUALIZED HEALTH CARE 3 Credit Hours
This course is designed to facilitate understanding of how providers', patients', and their families' perspectives impact their participation in the health care system. Students will explore the ethical and legal implications of barriers to quality health care for all individuals. The course promotes appreciation of various viewpoints in our society through the examination of beliefs, values, and perspectives that may impact health care. Students will evaluate the dynamics of interpersonal communication when people of various cultures interact. The course will include study of the Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services [CLAS] standards as they apply to patient-centered health care.
Prerequisite: Admission in the UNMC College of Allied Health Professions and/or current registration/certification in an allied health profession or permission of the instructor.
Typically Offered: SUMMER
CAHP 420 FOUNDATIONS OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY IN HEALTHCARE 2 Credit Hours
The online, asynchronous course provides an introductory overview and application of information technology in healthcare to improve learner understanding of the following key tenets: health informatics, electronic health records, healthcare data analytics, ethics and safety, computer and network architecture, information privacy and security, telemedicine, and medical imaging informatics. This course follows an accelerated 8-week format beginning at the start of each semester.
Prerequisite: Enrollment in the Radiography or Degree Advancement Option Programs or by instructor permission
Typically Offered: FALL
CAHP 422 PRINCIPLES OF EDUCATION FOR HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONALS 2 Credit Hours
The purpose of this course is to introduce the student to the principles of education for the purposes of preparing health care professionals to fulfill the role of clinical instructor and/or program director for their specific clinical discipline. The topics to be covered include curriculum development, the use of terminal objectives, developing test questions, preparation of lesson plans and assignments, and the development of audiovisual materials for didactic instruction.
Prerequisite: Admission in the UNMC College of Allied Health Professions and/or current registration/certification in an allied health profession and/or instructor permission.
Typically Offered: SPRING
CAHP 423 PRINCIPLES OF CRITICAL INQUIRY 2 Credit Hours
This asynchronous course is designed to develop the students' abilities to critically analyze and interpret research. The primary focus will be on evidence-based practice, research designs, statistical methods, and critically analyzing research papers.
Prerequisite: Enrollment in a CAHP program or instructor permission.
Typically Offered: FALL/SPR
CAHP 426 HEALTH CARE ETHICS AND CRITICAL THINKING 3 Credit Hours
This upper level, asynchronous course introduces ethical issues that Allied Health professionals can expect to encounter during their education and career. It covers such areas of concern as confidentiality, informed consent, responsible practice, professionalism, culture differences, handling mistakes, difficult cases, and key legal aspects of these issues. To assist students in resolving issues, the course identifies and applies key principles of critical thinking. The course trains students in the use of these principles in ethics and professionalism. The course is designed to improve the ability of students to reason soundly in professional ethics, to be familiar with the health professional ethics literature, and to communicate clearly about ethical values, integrity, and judgement.
Cross List: CAHP 626, HDS 826.
Typically Offered: FALL/SPR
CAHP 430 SCANNING HEALTH CARE ENVIRONMENT 3 Credit Hours
This upper level, asynchronous course is designed to provide allied health professions students with an overview of health care delivery in the United States. The course will explore factors that influence the delivery of health care, including drivers of health outcomes, the financing of health care, and various health care settings. The course will examine the evolution of health care in the United States and will project issues that will affect health care in the future. Allied health professionals are affected by such changes in both their personal and professional lives. It will be the challenge of health care professionals of the future to consider the value of Medicare and Medicaid, the handling of insurance issues, the creation of policy governing health care delivery, and the optimization of health care outcomes. This course is designed to assist students in gaining an understanding of why change is occurring, recognizing trends in their particular professional environment, and identifying strategies to affect the changes to promote quality patient care in an economical environment.
Cross List: CAHP 630, HDS 830.
Typically Offered: FALL
CAHP 431 MANAGEMENT IN HEALTH CARE 3 Credit Hours
This course introduces allied health students and practitioners to the concepts of organizational theory and behavior as they apply to health care settings. The topics to be covered include personality types in the workplace, leadership and management, the principles of employee motivation, team performance and development, organizational culture, planning and implementing organizational change, human resource management practices, continuous quality improvement, financial management, and risk management.
Prerequisite: Enrollment in a College of Allied Health Professions program and/or permission of the instructor
Typically Offered: SPRING
CAHP 433 SPECIAL PROJECT IN MANAGEMENT 1 Credit Hour
This is an independent study project course focusing on management projects in the specific allied health disciplines. Included in this course are literature reviews and individual or team-focused projects relating to management functions and performance improvement. Students work will be supervised and evaluated by department administrators and division faculty members.
Prerequisite: CAHP 431.
Cross List: CAHP 533.
Typically Offered: SUMMER
CAHP 441 CLINICALLY ORIENTED GROSS ANATOMY 4 Credit Hours
Clinically Oriented Gross Anatomy is a 4-5 week summer course that explores human cadaveric anatomy, presenting all functional systems through a regional approach. This course utilizes a wide variety of imaging modalities and clinical correlations to reinforce the relevance and utility of gross anatomy in the health professions. The sequence of didactic material has been adapted to correlate with the group dissection laboratories.
Typically Offered: SUMMER
CAHP 445 CLINICALLY ORIENTED HUMAN ANATOMY I 3 Credit Hours
This is the first semester of a 2 semester clinically oriented human anatomy course (CAHP 445-3 credit hours in the fall semester and CAHP 446-2 credit hours in the spring semester). The content of the two courses includes human anatomy presented in a systems approach that utilizes a wide variety of imaging modalities and clinical correlations to understand gross anatomy with cell biology, histology, embryology and neuroanatomy followed by a review applying the information to anatomic regions of the human body. The sequence of the units has been adapted to correlate with the MITS Human Physiology 352 and 353 courses.
Prerequisite: Enrollment in the Radiography program.
Typically Offered: FALL
CAHP 446 CLINICALLY ORIENTED HUMAN ANATOMY II 2 Credit Hours
This is the second semester of a 2 semester clinically oriented human anatomy course (CAHP 445-3 credit hours in the fall semester and CAHP 446-2 credit hours in the spring semester). The content of the two courses includes human anatomy presented in a systems approach that utilizes a wide variety of imaging modalities and clinical correlations to understand gross anatomy with cell biology, histology, embryology and neuroanatomy followed by a review applying the information to anatomic regions of the human body. The sequence of the units has been adapted to correlate with the MITS Human Physiology 352 and 353 courses.
Prerequisite: Enrollment in the Radiography program.
Typically Offered: SPRING
CAHP 462 HUMAN ANATOMY & PHYSIOLOGY I 4 Credit Hours
The Human Anatomy and Physiology I presents human anatomy and physiology, organized by systems. This asynchronous course is designed as entry level AP that purposely utilizes a wide variety of imaging modalities to apply a clinical relevance to basic science content.
Prerequisite: Intro to Biology course is recommended or Instructor permission.
Cross List: CAHP 662.
Typically Offered: FALL
CAHP 463 HUMAN ANATOMY & PHYSIOLOGY II 4 Credit Hours
The Human Anatomy and Physiology II is a continuation of the Human Anatomy and Physiology I course. It presents human anatomy and physiology, organized by systems. This asynchronous course is designed as entry level Anatomy and Physiology course that purposely utilizes a wide variety of imaging modalities to apply a clinical relevance to basic science content.
Prerequisite: CAHP 462/662 or Instructor permission.
Cross List: CAHP 663
Typically Offered: SPRING
CAHP 515 COMMUNICATION & CULTURAL COMPETENCY 2 Credit Hours
Cultural Competence and Communication is an upper-level course for allied health professions students and other interested students to facilitate an understanding of the role of cultural competence in the health care arena and explore the ethical and legal implications of this topic. The course will begin by helping the student understand the value of diversity in our society. Secondly, the course will allow the student to make self-examination of their own beliefs, values and biases. This will be followed by the dynamics involved when two cultures interact. Students will examine specific cultural characteristics as they apply to health care and propose ways of adapting diversity to the delivery of health care. The course will include an in-depth assessment of the Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services [CLAS] standards and cultural competency information available to healthcare organizations.
Cross List: CAHP 415.
Typically Offered: SUMMER
CAHP 533 SPECIAL PROJECT IN MANAGEMENT 1 Credit Hour
This is an independent study project course focusing on management projects in the specific allied health disciplines. Included in this course are literature reviews and individual or team-focused projects relating to management functions and performance improvement. Students work will be supervised and evaluated by department administrators and division faculty members.
Prerequisite: CAHP 531.
Cross List: CAHP 433.
Typically Offered: SUMMER
CAHP 601 FOUNDATIONS OF HEALTH PROFESSIONS EDUCATION 3 Credit Hours
This course presents the basic concepts and processes of curriculum and instruction, including learning theories, curriculum planning, teaching modalities, and curriculum evaluation. Topics are selected to give students a basic understanding of pedagogy. Evaluation is based on weekly discussion posts and papers.
Prerequisite: Admission to the Health Professions Teaching and Technology program, or another UNMC master's or doctoral program, and/or permission of the instructor. BSMITS DAO Option students may enroll with permission from the program director.
Cross List: HPTT 801
Typically Offered: FALL
CAHP 602 INSTRUCTIONAL DESIGN FOR HEALTH PROFESSIONS EDUCATION 3 Credit Hours
This course focuses on the fundamentals of instructional design for developing highly effective instruction. Topics include the science of how people learn, learning situations and characteristics, task and needs analysis, development of goals and objectives, principles of design process, assessment strategies (formative and summative), and concepts of design for a variety of environments and instructional modalities.
Prerequisite: Admission to the Healthcare Delivery Science, Health Professions Teaching Technology or another UNMC Master's or PhD program and/or permission of the instructor.
Cross List: HPTT 802
Typically Offered: SPRING
CAHP 603 INTEGRATING TECHNOLOGY INTO HEALTH PROFESSIONS CURRICULUM 3 Credit Hours
This course is intended to prepare the graduate student, professional student, health educators or health professional to integrate technology into health sciences curriculum. It is designed to help health profession educators to become confident with the practical applications of technology integration when constructing curriculum. This course will focus on integrating modern technologies in the traditional, online, hybrid and flipped classrooms.
Prerequisite: Admission to the Healthcare Delivery Science, Health Professions Teaching Technology or another UNMC Master's or PhD program and/or permission of the instructor.
Cross List: HPTT 803
Typically Offered: SUMMER
CAHP 604 MULTIMEDIA AND EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES FOR LEARNING IN THE HEALTH PROFESSIONS 3 Credit Hours
This course provides participants with an introduction to the use of multimedia and emerging technology for teaching and learning in the health professions. Participants will develop skills and apply knowledge using technology tools to enhance their profession. Participants will research, discuss and share current technology trends in health professions. They will engage with multimedia and telecommunication solutions, evaluate existing and emerging technology learning opportunities and articulate personal principles concerning technology for teaching and learning.
Prerequisite: Admission to the Healthcare Delivery Science, Health Professions Teaching Technology or another UNMC Master's or PhD program and/or permission of the instructor.
Cross List: HPTT 804
Typically Offered: FALL
CAHP 605 EVALUATION AND ASSESSMENT OF TEACHING AND LEARNING IN HEALTH PROFESSIONS EDUCATION 3 Credit Hours
This course explores the nature, objective, and basic procedures of assessment and program evaluation as applied to the various aspects of health professions education settings. The course will examine technical characteristics of various assessment methods, including both traditional and alternative methods. In addition, the course will analyze and discuss various topics in assessment such as authentic assessment, large-scale assessment, formative assessment, and assessment for program evaluation. Additional topics will include accreditation, program review, benchmarking, and evaluation of teaching in health professions programs.
Prerequisite: Admission to the Healthcare Delivery Science, Health Professions Teaching Technology or another UNMC Master's or PhD program and/or permission of the instructor.
Cross List: HPTT 805
Typically Offered: FALL
CAHP 615 COMMUNICATION FOR INDIVIDUALIZED HEALTH CARE 3 Credit Hours
This course is designed to facilitate understanding of how providers', patients', and their families' perspectives impact their participation in the health care system. Students will explore the ethical and legal implications of barriers to quality health care for all individuals. The course promotes appreciation of various viewpoints in our society through the examination of beliefs, values, and perspectives that may impact health care. Students will evaluate the dynamics of interpersonal communication when people of various cultures interact. The course will include study of the Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services [CLAS] standards as they apply to patient-centered health care.
Prerequisite: Admission in the UNMC College of Allied Health Professions and/or current registration/certification in an allied health profession or permission of the instructor.
Cross List: CAHP 415, HDS 815.
Typically Offered: SUMMER
CAHP 620 DISTANCE EDUCATION IN HEALTH PROFESSIONS EDUCATION 3 Credit Hours
Distance education for the health professions is an asynchronous, on-line course which will focus on the practical aspects of developing and facilitating distance education courses in medical education. The course will cover various aspects of online course delivery and design including the creation and facilitation of interaction, the creation of assignments and assessments for on-line learning, course etiquette and ADA compliance. As part of the course, participants will have the opportunity to develop a distance course module grounded in distance education theory and instructional design principles.
Prerequisite: Admission to the Healthcare Delivery Science, Health Professions Teaching Technology or another UNMC Master's or PhD program and/or permission of the instructor.
Cross List: HPTT 820
Typically Offered: SPRING
CAHP 621 FUNDAMENTALS OF ADULT LEARNING IN HEALTH PROFESSIONS EDUCATION 3 Credit Hours
Fundamentals of Adult Learning for the Health Professions is an on-line course which will focus on adult learning in medical education. As part of this course, students will explore the evolution of adult learning theory including traditional and emerging views of the practice of adult learning, such as andragogy, self-directed learning, transformative learning, social and cognitive constructivism, and critical reflection. The goal of this course is to give the student an overview of these major theories and current research related to adult learning along with providing ideas on how to apply these concepts to practice.
Prerequisite: Admission to the Healthcare Delivery Science, Health Professions Teaching Technology or another UNMC Master's or PhD program and/or permission of the instructor.
Cross List: HPTT 821
Typically Offered: SPRING
CAHP 622 COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY APPLIED TO HEALTH PROFESSIONS EDUCATION 3 Credit Hours
This course will explore the construct of cognitive psychology as it relates to both personal experiences and pedagogical implications for the health care professional or educator A foundation of cognitive psychology, relationship to neuroscience, perception, attention, working memory, long-term memory, visual imagery, language, metacognition, problem solving, reasoning, and decision making are key elements related to cognitive psychology that will be examined throughout the course. A connection to how these foundational elements of cognitive psychology are impacted by the unique environment of the healthcare professional or educator will be a central theme of the course.
Prerequisite: Admission to the Healthcare Delivery Science, Health Professions Teaching Technology or another UNMC Master's or PhD program and/or permission of the instructor.
Cross List: HPTT 822
Typically Offered: SUMMER
CAHP 623 LEADERSHIP IN HEALTH PROFESSIONS EDUCATION 3 Credit Hours
This course is an in-depth exploration the knowledge, skills, attitudes, and competencies required for leadership in the context of complex health care and health professions education organizations. Leadership theory will be used as a framework for enhancing organizational behavior focusing on both individual and team performance.
Prerequisite: Admission to the Health Professions Teaching and Technology program, or another UNMC master's or doctoral program, and/or permission of the instructor. BSMITS DAO Option students may enroll with permission from the program director.
Cross List: HPTT 823
Typically Offered: SPRING
CAHP 624 SIMULATED AND VIRTUAL LEARNING IN HEALTH PROFESSIONS EDUCATION 3 Credit Hours
This course provides students the tools they need to design and perform simulation in an educationally sound manner. Emphasis will be placed on practical application of teaching/learning theory in simulation environments by promoting the transfer of theory to practice. Students will examine a variety of simulation techniques, strategies and the role they play in the education and training of the healthcare professionals.
Prerequisite: Admission to the Healthcare Delivery Science, Health Professions Teaching Technology or another UNMC Master's or PhD program and/or permission of the instructor.
Cross List: HPTT 824
Typically Offered: FALL
CAHP 625 ESSENTIALS OF E-MODULE DEVELOPMENT 3 Credit Hours
This course is intended to prepare the graduate student, professional student, health educators, or health professionals to create interactive, e-learning modules for implementation into the curriculum. The course will utilize the knowledge and skills in the HPTT core program enabling students to design and develop an e-module with a facilitator guide following best practices for adult learners
Prerequisite: Admission to the Healthcare Delivery Science, Health Professions Teaching Technology or another UNMC Master's or PhD program and/or permission of the instructor.
Cross List: HPTT 825
Typically Offered: SUMMER
CAHP 626 HEALTH CARE ETHICS AND CRITICAL THINKING 3 Credit Hours
This upper level, asynchronous course introduces ethical issues that Allied Health professionals can expect to encounter during their education and career. It covers such areas of concern as confidentiality, informed consent, responsible practice, professionalism, culture differences, handling mistakes, difficult cases, and key legal aspects of these issues. To assist students in resolving issues, the course identifies and applies key principles of critical thinking. The course trains students in the use of these principles in ethics and professionalism. The course is designed to improve the ability of students to reason soundly in professional ethics, to be familiar with the health professional ethics literature, and to communicate clearly about ethical values, integrity, and judgement.
Prerequisite: Enrollment in a CAHP program.
Cross List: CAHP 426, HDS 826.
Typically Offered: FALL/SPR
CAHP 630 SCANNING HEALTH CARE ENVIRONMENT 3 Credit Hours
This upper level, asynchronous course is designed to provide allied health professions students with an overview of health care delivery in the United States. The course will explore factors that influence the delivery of health care, including drivers of health outcomes, the financing of health care, and various health care settings. The course will examine the evolution of health care in the United States and will project issues that will affect health care in the future. Allied health professionals are affected by such changes in both their personal and professional lives. It will be the challenge of health care professionals of the future to consider the value of Medicare and Medicaid, the handling of insurance issues, the creation of policy governing health care delivery, and the optimization of health care outcomes. This course is designed to assist students in gaining an understanding of why change is occurring, recognizing trends in their particular professional environment, and identifying strategies to affect the changes to promote quality patient care in an economical environment.
Cross List: CAHP 430, HDS 830.
Typically Offered: FALL
CAHP 631 MANAGEMENT IN HEALTH CARE 3 Credit Hours
This course introduces allied health students and practitioners to the concepts of organizational theory and behavior as they apply to health care settings. The topics to be covered include personality types in the workplace, leadership and management, the principles of employee motivation, team performance and development, organizational culture, planning and implementing organizational change, human resource management practices, continuous quality improvement, financial management, and risk management.
Cross List: HDS 831
Typically Offered: SPRING
CAHP 640 FOUNDATIONS OF CLINICAL TEACHING 3 Credit Hours
This course is designed to assist graduate students in preparation of teaching in a clinical setting. Students will have the opportunity to investigate and apply theory and evidence-based practice strategies in clinical teaching. Topics include optimizing orientation and onboarding, developing learning objectives, promoting clinical reasoning, conducting appropriate assessment, and providing effective feedback.
Prerequisite: Admission to the Health Professions Teaching and Technology program, or another UNMC master's or doctoral program, and/or permission of the instructor. BSMITS DAO Option students may enroll with permission from the program director.
Cross List: HPTT 840
Typically Offered: SUMMER
CAHP 650 FOUNDATIONS OF QUALITY IMPROVEMENT 3 Credit Hours
Learners will explore foundational principles of the field and science of quality improvement. Topics covered will lay the groundwork for students to understand the complexity of quality improvement in practice including policies and regulations that affect quality, quality metrics and reporting, frameworks to conceptualize quality issues, quality improvement models, data management and analysis methods, considerations for adopting change to improve and sustain performance, and organizational and social influences on improvement.
Prerequisite: Admission to the Health Professions Teaching and Technology program, or another UNMC master's or doctoral program, and/or permission of the instructor. BSMITS DAO Option students may enroll with permission from the program director.
Cross List: HDS 850
Typically Offered: FALL
CAHP 660 INTRODUCTION TO HEALTH INFORMATICS 3 Credit Hours
Health informatics is the interdisciplinary study of the collection, management, and use of patient and health services related data to improve the overall quality and effectiveness of healthcare. This course presents an introduction to the practice of informatics in the healthcare setting. Overarching topics include: the fundamental informatics framework, the role of informatics across the healthcare continuum, and a survey of health informatics applications
Prerequisite: Admission to the Health Professions Teaching and Technology program, or another UNMC master's or doctoral program, and/or permission of the instructor. BSMITS DAO Option students may enroll with permission from the program director.
Cross List: HDS 860
Typically Offered: FALL
CAHP 662 HUMAN ANATOMY & PHYSIOLOGY I 4 Credit Hours
The Human Anatomy and Physiology I presents human anatomy and physiology, organized by systems. This asynchronous course is designed as entry level AP that purposely utilizes a wide variety of imaging modalities to apply a clinical relevance to basic science content.
Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
Cross List: CAHP 462.
Typically Offered: FALL
CAHP 663 HUMAN ANATOMY & PHYSIOLOGY II 4 Credit Hours
The Human Anatomy and Physiology II is a continuation of the Human Anatomy and Physiology I course. It presents human anatomy and physiology, organized by systems. This asynchronous course is designed as entry level Anatomy and Physiology course that purposely utilizes a wide variety of imaging modalities to apply a clinical relevance to basic science content.
Prerequisite: CAHP 462/662 or Instructor permission.
Cross List: CAHP 463
Typically Offered: SPRING
CAHP 670 PATIENT-CENTERED CARE I 4 Credit Hours
This course is the first in a series of three courses. This asynchronous interprofessional course is designed to introduce the student to healthcare delivery science content related to patient-centered care. The student will engage in learning activities related to interprofessional teams, improvement of clinical practice/education, and the employment of evidence-based practice to continually improve operations and the quality of care delivered in the clinical setting.
Prerequisite: Enrollment in a College of Allied Health Program and program director permission.
Typically Offered: FALL
CAHP 673 SPECIAL TOPICS IN HEALTHCARE 1-4 Credit Hours
This independent study course allows students to explore a specific topic not offered in the existing curriculum. Faculty approved and guided, student-designed projects provide students the opportunity to conduct independent research, participate in or conduct community projects, obtain certification for a specific skill set related to their primary profession, pursue the scholarly exploration of a specific topic, or other student-designed projects. All projects will require faculty approval and oversight.
Prerequisite: Admission to the Healthcare Delivery Science, Health Professions Teaching Technology or another UNMC Master's or PhD program and/or permission of the instructor.
Cross List: HDS 873
Typically Offered: FALL/SP/SU
CAHP 680 PATIENT-CENTERED CARE II 4 Credit Hours
This course is the second in a series of three courses. This asynchronous interprofessional course allows the student to continue their exploration of healthcare delivery science content related to patient-centered care. The student will engage in learning activities related to interprofessional teams, improvement of clinical practice/education, and the employment of evidence-based practice to continually improve operations and the quality of care delivered in the clinical setting.
Prerequisite: Successful completion of CAHP 670 Patient-Centered Care I, enrollment in a College of Allied Health Professions program, and program director permission.
Typically Offered: SPRING
CAHP 690 PATIENT-CENTERED CARE III 4 Credit Hours
This course is the third in a series of three courses. This asynchronous interprofessional course allows the student to continue their exploration of healthcare delivery science content related to patient-centered care. The student will engage in learning activities that explore challenges in healthcare and how these challenges can be addressed through interprofessional teams, improvement of clinical education/practice, and the employment of evidence-based practices
Prerequisite: Successful completion of CAHP 670 Patient-Centered CAre I, CAHP 680 Patient-Centered Care II, enrollment in a College of Allied Health Professions program, and program director permission.
Typically Offered: SUMMER
CAHP 723 PRINCIPLES OF CRITICAL INQUIRY 2 Credit Hours
This asynchronous course is designed to develop the students' abilities to critically analyze and interpret research. The primary focus will be on evidence-based practice, research designs, statistical methods, and critically analyzing research papers.
Prerequisite: Enrollment in a CAHP program or instructor permission.
Cross List: CAHP 423
Typically Offered: FALL/SPR
CAHP 730 RESEARCH ANALYSIS AND DESIGN FOR HEALTH PROFESSIONS EDUCATION 3 Credit Hours
The purpose of this course is to provide an introduction to research methods likely to be encountered during a health professions teaching and technology career. Learners will demonstrate the steps of scientific research. This course will cover topics including formulation of a research problem, sampling and research design, dissemination of research findings, and research proposal writing. These topics will be discussed in detail and result in the learners demonstrating the application of newly acquired skills through critical review of peer-reviewed scientific articles. Research ethics is large component of the course. Learners will complete the Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative (CITI) training program as well as learn about the Institutional Review Board (IRB) processes and applications. Through an iterative process of group feedback and project refinement, each learner will develop a research/grant proposal which can be included in an e-portfolio.
Prerequisite: Admission to the Healthcare Delivery Science, Health Professions Teaching Technology or another UNMC Master's or PhD program and/or permission of the instructor.
Cross List: HPTT 830
Typically Offered: SPRING
CAHP 750 INTERPROFESSIONAL GLOBAL HEALTH 3 Credit Hours
TBD
Cross List: MSCI 750
Typically Offered: SUMMER