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Biotechnology |
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BT 711 - Flow Cytometry
2 Credit Hours
Course covers basic knowledge and main applications of flow cytometry, and contains both lectures/tutorials and laboratory work. The students will learn: (1) Principles of flow cytometry: instrumentation for flow cytometry; probes for flow cytometry; quality control; and instrument maintenance. (2) Basic skills: flow cytometric protocol design; sample preparation; data analysis and presentation. (3) Major applications of flow cytometry in biomedical research and diagnostics.
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BT 714 - Internship
3 Credit Hours
Mentored internship at an academic research laboratory or in the biotechnology sector focusing on advanced biotechnical training.
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BT 716 - Internship
6 Credit Hours
Mentored internship at a biotechnology company or in a research laboratory focusing on advanced biotechnical training.
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BT 719 - Advanced Molecular and Cellular Techniques
2 Credit Hours
Methods of gene manipulation and mutagenesis and immunological techniques will be discussed. Topics include deletion and site-directed mutagenesis, chimeras, use of linkers and expression tags, SDS polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, in vitro transcription and translation.
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Contemporary Human Anatomy |
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MCHA 500 - Clinical Gross Anatomy
5 Credit Hours
The study of anatomy (from the Greek word anatomē, ana = apart, tomē = cutting) is concerned with describing the form, structures, and functions of an organism. In learning anatomy, we approach the study of the human body by integrating anatomical knowledge into a case-based approach. Students will use this knowledge to recognize normal variation and to use this variation to describe and explain clinically relevant abnormalities. This course provides a comprehensive overview of human anatomy while also allowing students to engage in interactive lectures, participate in case-based group activities, collaborate in dissection-based laboratories (allowances will be made to move the dissection experience to a different course in the curriculum; the case-activity labs will replace dissection), and interact with practicing clinicians to gain clinical anatomical competence.
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MCHA 501 - Instructional Methods
2 Credit Hours
The course prepares students with theoretical foundations and practical techniques to plan, apply and design appropriate instructional methods while serving as a teaching assistant. It introduces a wide range of instructional methods and discusses techniques of writing good examination questions.
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MCHA 502 - Medical Imaging
2 Credit Hours
This course applies basic foundational anatomy principles to medical imaging including X-ray, MRI, CT and ultrasound. Students are expected to apply their cross-sectional knowledge to the interpretation and acquisition of medical images.
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MCHA 503 - Embryology
2 Credit Hours
This course consists of lectures devoted to the student’s understanding of how the human body develops. Topics covered will include early embryogenesis, organogenesis and clinical embryology.
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MCHA 504 - Teaching Assistant
2 Credit Hours
This course allows students to serve as teaching assistants for medical, physician assistant or graduate courses in Gross Anatomy or Histology. Responsibilities would include prosection of specimens, laboratory instruction, small group facilitation, course reviews and design of innovative study materials.
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MCHA 507 - Capstone Project
3 Credit Hours
All students participate in a capstone experience through a synthesis and integration of knowledge gained through their coursework and other learning experiences, with the application of anatomical specimen preparation, medical education, clinical trainers/phantoms, service learning or simulation. The project must be an original work of scholarship or research.
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MCHA 509 - Plastination Training in Guben, Germany
3 Credit Hours
Students would travel to learn plastination techniques from world experts at the Plastinarium in Guben, Germany. In conjunction, students would prepare dissections for plastination.
Prerequisites This course requires an additional fee.
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MCHA 510 - Histology
2 Credit Hours
The overall goal of this course is to provide students with an understanding of how cells become specialized to form tissues and how those tissues form organs. The course provides an essential foundation for understanding structure-function relationships in normal organs and how those relationships are affected by pathogenic mechanisms.
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MCHA 511 - Independent Study
2 Credit Hours
Independent study allows students to pursue an additional mini capstone project of their interest with a mentor.
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MCHA 513 - Teaching Assistant II
3 Credit Hours
This course allows students to serve as teaching assistants for medical, physician assistant or graduate courses in Gross Anatomy or Histology. Responsibilities would include prosection of specimens, laboratory instruction, small group facilitation, course reviews and design of innovative study materials.ription from CHA Program
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MCHA 516 - Functional Neuroanatomy
3 Credit Hours
This course presents an overview of the human nervous system so that a student can understand the function of its complex parts as they relate to each other, to normal brain function and to major neurologic and psychiatric problems. This is an integrated neuroscience course that includes molecular, developmental, anatomical, metabolic, physiologic and pathologic concepts. Learning methodologies include lectures, wet labs, special dissections, small group problem-based learning and peer-to-peer teaching.
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MCHA 518 - Essential Physiology
3 Credit Hours
This is a comprehensive introductory course to integrative organ system physiology and homeostatic regulatory mechanisms where interrelationships of structure and function are reinforced. The course consists of lectures and small group activities where the former introduces the concepts while the latter allows for concepts application. Active learning strategies such as gaming are employed to facilitate comprehensive process. The flow of the course is intended to interphase closely with the topic material being taught concurrently in Histology (MCHA510). Together with Anatomy, Embryology and Histology courses, this course gives an impeccable and solid understating of the basis of any medical education.
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MCHA 520 - Introduction to Research(online)
3 Credit Hours
This course provides the knowledge necessary to understand the purpose and process of educational research and help learners become informed consumers of research literature in the field of medical and health professions education. It will survey the major types of educational research in this area including qualitative and quantitative forms of analysis to better answer questions which cannot be studied in laboratory settings, particularly in the social sciences and education. This course will also prepare students for their Capstone projects.
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MCHA 525 - Clinical Anatomy Practicum
3 Credit Hours
The study of human anatomy has a rich culture-history that has experienced many paradigm shifts in the way that it is learned and taught. From lessons learned at the anatomy theater to the use of modern technology such as virtual reality and holograms, the human anatomy experience has always been a unique and an intricate component in the training of healthcare professionals. Indeed, human anatomy is the foundation of healthcare training. This practicum builds on the content and competencies developed during MCHA 500 by facilitating an integrated, self-directed, and case-based human dissection experience that allows students to engage in a professional clinical anatomical laboratory environment.
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MCHA 530 - General Mechanisms of Disease
2 Credit Hours
Cross-listed: BM531
The General Mechanisms of Disease module serves as a transition from the foundational modules to the organ systems modules. It focuses on the general mechanisms of disease, introducing students to microbiology and infectious disease, principles for discriminating healthy from unhealthy conditions and predicting clinical manifestations. The course consists of face-to-face lectures by basic science faculty focusing on major principles and their biomedical applications. Exams are used to assess foundational knowledge and facilitate knowledge integration and are designed to facilitate student review and self-assessment. The PathA student will complete approximately 60 contact hours. The course will have three major non-comprehensive multiple choice exams each covering approximately 6 to 8 hours of lecture content. The course will assess topic-specific foundational knowledge and facilitate disease knowledge integration.
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MCHA 615 - Educational Scholarship Methods
3 Credit Hours
Within the context of Boyer’s four models of scholarship, this course provides the knowledge necessary to understand the purposes and processes of research using an expanded definition of scholarship that goes beyond the scholarship of discovery (research) to include the scholarship of integration, the scholarship of application, and the scholarship of teaching. The course will also introduce students to quantitative and qualitative design approaches, examine foundational issues of research from both quantitative and qualitative perspectives, and build skills for interpreting and evaluating research including criteria for evaluating empirical studies, particularly in the social sciences and in education.
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Contemporary Human Anatomy Education |
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CHAE 800 - Advanced Anatomical Sciences
3 Credit Hours
This course will provide exposure to the four cardinal anatomical sciences. Gross Anatomy, Micro Anatomy, Embryology & Neuroanatomy. The course will include anatomy, histology and embryology, and multiple neuroanatomy online lectures and labs to ensure students are well versed in each of the specialties.
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CHAE 802 - Advanced Medical Imaging in the Digital Environment
3 Credit Hours
The Advanced Medical Imaging course is a high level imaging course in which students will have online components, live presentations in the radiology residency program and some shadowing experience in the clinical environment. Students will be expected to reflect on these experiences in a journal to how they would be employed in a teaching environment. Each will be required to produce an imaging teaching module and assessments around an area of imaging interest or assignment.
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CHAE 803 - Contemporary Approaches to Teaching Anatomy
3 Credit Hours
Anatomy is one of the oldest disciplines in human history. From Hippocrates and Galen to da Vinci and Vesalius and into the Enlightenment and modern age, knowledge of anatomy has evolved, experiencing many paradigm shifts in the way it is learned and taught. In this course, students will examine the culture-history of anatomy instruction and place this heritage in context with contemporary needs, issues, and best practices relating to course development, course management, dissection, grading, and integration of content in diverse academic settings.
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Dermatology |
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DRM 408 - Dermatology
This elective is designed to give the student exposure to clinical dermatology including the vocabulary, diagnosis, and management of common skin diseases seen in general practice. Rotations through a variety of clinical outpatient settings will provide a broad-based background.
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DRM 410 - Dermatology Special Elective
This elective is offered to individuals with a special interest in dermatology. Opportunities will be available to pursue a research project that will result in a publication at the end of the month. Projects will be tailored to the individual’s area of interest.
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DRM 998 - Dermatology
Non-site-specific elective with a member of the EVMS faculty
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DRM 999 - Dermatology
Away elective
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Emergency Medicine |
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ERM 400 - Emergency Medicine
Rotate through the Emergency Medicine Department at several area Sentara hospitals with Emergency Physicians of Tidewater. Students will see and evaluate all types of emergency patients, while working closely with emergency medicine attendings and residents. There is ample opportunity for hands-on care and developing procedural and clinical skills. Students will be assigned to a resident/attending and are expected to work their assigned shifts. Any schedule requests/changes must be approved in advance by the chief resident. Students are required to attend a series of lectures, grand rounds, SIM lab assessments, FAST exam Ultrasound, and our monthly Journal Club. The final grade is based on case conference presentation, patient/procedure logbook, clinical performance, and final exam grade. Clinical performance is a composite score based on resident and attending evaluations. The logbook refers to clinical experience documented in a patient/procedure log kept by the student during the rotation. In order to be considered for a grade of Honors for this elective, (the student must complete 15 documented shifts), a clinical score evaluation of Honors, and take the shelf exam.
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ERM 402 - Emergency Medicine
Rotating medical students spend four weeks in our department, and function in a capacity similar to that of the typical sub-intern. Students evaluate patients autonomously and make presentations to any one of 17 individual emergency medicine attending physicians whose cumulative background encompasses over nine separate residency training programs throughout the nation. They participate in the resuscitation of critically ill or injured patients, and perform necessary procedures when indicated. Didactically, the student participates in the accredited weekly emergency medicine residency conferences, daily intern lectures, and patient rounds. Additionally, students benefit from a specialized medical student curriculum which covers key concepts in the field. They may also participate in a monthly animal lab in which Advanced Trauma Life Support procedures are taught and they are invited to attend monthly journal club sessions. Students also benefit from their interaction with interns and residents of varied levels of training and specialty interests. A particularly unique feature of our rotation is the exposure to emergencies presenting primarily in the military setting and emergency physician use of ultrasound. Naval Medical Center Portsmouth is a large 450 bed teaching hospital which has 14 specialty residencies/fellowships. The annual patient census in the emergency department approaches 70,000 visits. Approximately 30-40% of these pertain to the pediatric population. The admission rate from the emergency department is approximately 12%. The ratio of medical/surgical presenting complaints is roughly 3:2. This high volume provides a rich environment for exposure to the entities commonly encountered in emergency medicine. The recently renovated and upgraded emergency department has 13 general beds, five specialty beds, and two resuscitation beds.
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ERM 405 - Honors Ultrasound in Emergency Medicine
The purpose of this course is to teach the fundamentals of emergency ultrasound, both didactic knowledge and bedside image acquisition, longitudinally over the fourth year of medical school for selected students pursuing a career in Emergency Medicine. During the year, M4 students will have the opportunity to work with Emergency Medicine physicians proficient in emergency ultrasound at Sentara Norfolk General Hospital. The student will become proficient in the core applications of bedside ultrasound in Emergency Medicine. The M4 student will also serve as an education resource to assist in teaching their underclassmen.
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ERM 998 - Emergency Medicine
Non-site-specific elective with a member of the EVMS faculty
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ERM 999 - Emergency Medicine
Away elective
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Family Medicine |
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FAM 300 - Family Medicine
The EVMS Family and Community Medicine Clerkship provides students with clinical experience in the outpatient clinic and inpatient/hospital setting as well as community-engaged learning experiences at EVMS and partnering institutions. Our faculty and residents contribute to medical student education through direct observation in the clinical setting, bedside teaching, interactive case-based didactics, standardized patient encounters, review of clinical documentation, and student mentoring and advising. Students will develop the ability to apply the principles of family medicine care to gather information, formulate differential diagnoses, and manage patients with one or more common acute or chronic disease. Additionally, students will discuss the critical role of physicians within any health care system and develop evidence-based health promotion and disease prevention plans for patients of any age or gender.
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FAM 404 - Rural Medicine
This elective is designed to provide an in-depth experience in community/rural medicine. Students will work with a family physician in a rural primary care office. Travel may be necessary to areas of Virginia including Franklin/Courtland, Western Tidewater, the Eastern Shore or other sites.
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FAM 410 - Apprenticeship in Family Medicine
Students will develop an accurate understanding of family medicine as a discipline and potential career choice through reading and direct observation of family physician preceptors.
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FAM 417 - Family Medicine Acting Internship
The student will spend 4 weeks with the Ghent Family Medicine inpatient team at Sentara Norfolk General Hospital. Inpatient service only admits patients from the Ghent Family Practice. The student’s responsibilities are commensurate to those of an intern on the family medicine service. These responsibilities include daily rounds, management of patients, evaluations of patients in the emergency department, admissions and discharges through EMR. For continuity, there will be opportunities to follow the discharged patient(s) during follow-up at the Ghent ambulatory center. There will also be opportunities to take night call with the family medicine intern. All activities will be supervised by a senior resident and the rounding faculty. The acting intern will attend didactic lectures one afternoon per week, and will spend one afternoon per week in the outpatient setting seeing patients.
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FAM 418 - Ambulatory Family Medicine
The student will spend four weeks providing patient care at the Ghent Family Medicine ambulatory center under the supervision of attending physicians and senior residents. The student will have the opportunity to provide “point of care” services such as cryotherapy and joint injections. Participation in the center’s minor surgery, colposcopy and other specialty clinics can be arranged based on interest and availability.
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FAM 421 - Family Medicine Quality Improvement
The student will longitudinally over academic year work with Dr. Richard Bikowski and other faculty for approximately 8 sessions starting in August and continuing once a month. The student will work with the Quality Improvement team in various aspects of EVMS activities that may include practice based research and implementation, best practices research and implementation, disease registry development and implementation, and development of dissemination of knowledge programs.
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FAM 423 - Family Medicine Acting Internship
The student will spend 4 weeks at Portsmouth Family Medicine. The student’s responsibilities will be comparable to those of an intern on the family medicine service. They will be required to take night call with the family medicine intern, do admission histories and physicals and follow the patients admitted to the service. They will also attend didactic lectures at the appropriate site. The student will spend one afternoon per week in the office seeing patients with hospital residents to provide continuity for discharged patients.
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FAM 424 - Ambulatory Family Medicine
The student will spend four weeks in their rotations seeing patients with their preceptor. The student will provide care for patients under supervision and when appropriate participate in educational activities.
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FAM 425 - Cost Conscious Medical Care
Students will meet for initial course introduction and to form teams for developing and completing education or clinical interventions for enhancing cost-conscious medical care in ambulatory or inpatient care and/or interfaces of care (e.g., emergency departments). There are 8 total sessions held once a month starting in August. Thereafter students will prepare for 3 hour evening seminars held monthly between August and March, reviewing best practices in cost-conscious care, from the Choosing Wisely Initiative to principles of parsimony. Teams will meet independently to design and carry out education or clinical interventions, while learning metrics for quality and cost of care.
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FAM 426 - Frontier Medicine
This elective is designed to provide an in-depth experience in frontier/rural medicine, experience with environmental and occupational health, inter-professional team based care, and health information technology (HIT) that ridges care for frontier populations. Students will work with a family physician in rural primary care office and in the Frontier Community Clinic (Tangier Clinic Website) with Physician Assistant Inez Pruitt. Travel will be necessary to the Eastern Shore and Tangier Island. Students should be prepared to stay in housing/dorm provided. Students will need to undergo rotation specific training for Riverside Health Systems prior to clinical experiences. Students should be prepared to fly to Tangier Island with physician supervisor or take the ferry.
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FAM 998 - Family Medicine
Non-site-specific elective with a member of the EVMS faculty
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FAM 999 - Family Medicine
Away elective
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Health Sciences |
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DHSC 701 - Management of Organizational Change
3 Credit Hours
Cross-listed: MHA 508 , MHDS 501
Study organizational management theory and organizational models in a variety of settings as related to culture, mission, performance and change management with an emphasis on the application of management theory and research. This course provides an opportunity to explore conceptual frameworks addressing organizational development, leadership, decision-making and the stages of change management.
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DHSC 702 - Healthcare Delivery Systems
3 Credit Hours
Cross-listed: MHDS 502 , MHA 505
This course focuses on the identification and analysis of factors and interrelationships which influence the operation of health services organizations with specific attention to local health departments, hospitals, multi-institutional systems, integrated health systems and strategic alliances. These organizations will be viewed and discussed comparatively with other types of health service agencies.
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DHSC 703 - Conflict Analysis and Negotiations
3 Credit Hours
Cross-listed: MPH736
This course examines issues and principles in the management of conflict and negotiation within organizations. Topics include resolution strategies and organizational design and change. Students will examine case studies and develop a conflict scenario that applies concepts learned throughout the course.
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DHSC 704 - Introduction to Healthcare Analytics
3 Credit Hours
Cross-listed: MHDS 504 ,MHA 500
This course introduces basic concepts in healthcare analytics. Students will develop data analysis skills with an emphasis on statistical reasoning. The course is designed to teach students how to use data to make informed decisions. This process includes reviewing the data, exploring all the underlying assumptions, summarizing and analyzing the data and finally translating the results. Discussions and assignments will focus on honing data interpretation and the ability to strategically apply analysis results to improve health outcomes.
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DHSC 705 - Effective Information Technology for Healthcare Organizations
3 Credit Hours
Cross-listed: MHDS 503
This course provides the key concepts related to information technology within healthcare organizations. The course explores how information technologies are used as a tool to enhance performance within healthcare organizations for positive health outcomes. Topic areas include various information technologies used in the healthcare sector; methods for assessing and ensuring information technology value; laws, regulations and standards to guide the practice; achieving effectiveness through information technology; and the latest development including business and clinical intelligence and telemedicine.
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DHSC 706 - Research Methods
3 Credit Hours
Cross-listed: MHA 502
This course introduces research methods and their applications in the healthcare environment. The course will provide an opportunity for students to establish and advance their understanding of research through exploring the fundamental definition of study design, technical methodology, data collection, data analysis, research ethics, statistical interpretation, and effective dissemination of research results. Students will be implementing theoretical concepts to critically review relevant literature and evaluate different types of research procedures and outcomes. Students will also apply the methodologies they learn to identify and explain and prepare a preliminary research protocol. The primary focus of this course is to develop the learner’s ability to understand, evaluate, and apply research methods in healthcare settings and to prepare them to become effective leaders in that environment.
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DHSC 800 - Essentials of Financial Management
3 Credit Hours
Cross-listed: MHDS 600
This course covers financial management in healthcare organizations including, but not limited to, financial decision-making using accounting information, operation of business units, principles of economics and capital budgeting processes and budgetary and financial controls. Financial performance will be analyzed along with revenue determination and profitability. General accounting foundations and terminology will be covered. Students will analyze real-life cases to apply cost allocation, marginal cost pricing, breakeven, budget variance, capital investment and financial analysis skills. Students will also identify and explore a healthcare finance-related topic, and will prepare a research paper.
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DHSC 801 - Leveraging Data for Evidence-Based Decision Making
3 Credit Hours
MHDS 601 , MHA 503
Prerequisites The utilization of data in decision-making is essential in healthcare delivery. Data can be used to evaluate the quality of care delivery, program effectiveness, health economics and more. This course provides an introduction to the use of data and how to transform analysis results into evidence driven decisions. Students will also learn how to apply and integrate these concepts into health-related scenarios and gain fundamental skills in data-driven decision-making for healthcare leaders.
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DHSC 803 - Program Evaluation
3 Credit Hours
To ensure student learning and program quality, address accreditation standards and satisfy institutional initiatives, formative and summative program evaluation methods will be examined in depth. Formative evaluation topics include needs assessment, evaluability assessment, structured conceptualization, implementation evaluation and process evaluation. Summative evaluation topics include outcome evaluations, impact evaluation, cost-effectiveness and cost-benefit analysis, secondary analysis and meta-analysis. Strategies for establishing an evaluation culture within an educational institution will be discussed. Learners will apply this knowledge to their actual working environment through a series of practical exercises.
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DHSC 804 - Leadership and Professionalism
3 Credit Hours
Cross-listed: MHDS 505 , MHA 509
This course will expose learners to effective leadership approaches and skill sets. Topics will include fundamentals of leadership, leadership and professionalism self-assessment, leadership philosophy, professionalism, essential leadership and professionalism skills, modeling best leadership practices and behaviors, ethics in leadership, institutional and program accreditation, handling conflict and emerging issues. Learners will apply this learning to their professional life through a series of practical exercises.
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DHSC 805 - Population Health and Preventive Care
3 Credit Hours
Cross-listed: MHDS 602 , MHA 510
This course discusses the determinants of health, health behavior change, measuring health status, and influences on health status including health disparities and socioeconomic status. This includes discussion on how healthcare organizations utilize this information to improve health status among populations. Additionally, students will be able to identify and understand population-based approaches aimed at health improvement.
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DHSC 900 - Policy and Politics of Healthcare
3 Credit Hours
Cross-listed: MPH723
This course is an introduction to the policy process, frameworks for understanding health policy issues, background research necessary for policy implementation and implementation strategies.
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DHSC 901 - Healthcare Strategy
3 Credit Hours
Cross-listed: MPHE 721
Examination of strategy-making issues for healthcare organizations, including analysis of economic incentives, financial strategies, development of mission and goals and formulation and implementation of long-range strategies to accomplish those goals.
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DHSC 903 - Leading Innovation
3 Credit Hours
Cross-listed: MHDS 603
Increasingly complex environments require a commitment to develop innovative solutions to address changing systems and evolving needs. This course will examine concepts and case studies of innovation in a variety of organizations, along with the tools and strategies necessary to promote effective change through discovery and networking. Students will apply information learned throughout the program to develop an innovative proposal for their place of employment or for an organization they aspire to work for.
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DSHC 700 - Strategic Communication
3 Credit Hours
Cross-listed: MHDS 500
Communication skills have never been more important than in the 21st century, where professionals must balance verbal and written interactions. Strategic communication must align the message, the medium and the audience to help organizations achieve their goals. This course will explore those concepts and help students improve their communication skills, including topics such as professional writing, development of effective PowerPoint presentations, importance of active listening and evolving use of social media.
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HADM 600 - Introduction to Health Care Systems
3 Credit Hours
This course is designed to help students learn about essential aspects of the organization, financing and delivery of healthcare in the United States. Students will acquire an enhanced understanding of the complex US health care system. The course has a macro-level orientation; however, the material necessitates considering how the many facets of the US healthcare system affect communities, families and individuals. The US healthcare system is like an ecosystem with various sub-components that interact with each other and with broader social, economic and political forces to create a complex, dynamic and intricate system. We can change the healthcare system, but we need to consider how proposed changes will affect other components of the system and broader society as well as what resistance various stakeholders will likely put forth.
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HADM 601 - Policy and Politics of Health
3 Credit Hours
Policy and Politics of Health, explores the development, implementation, and evaluation of health policies in the United States. Health policies include those that address the organization, financing, provision, and evaluation of both personal and public health services. The tension between government’s role in providing for the general welfare and protecting the public’s health while recognizing the privacy rights of the individual will receive considerable attention as will the provision of healthcare within the context of a federal system of government.
The long-term trend toward a more expansive role for governmental institutions and the media and the differential impact of economic, cultural and social factors, interest groups, social disparities and public opinion will be addressed in some detail. Students will develop an understanding of the policy process and the most common approach to policy research. The course includes exercises that will lead to a more comprehensive understanding of the most important types of public policy in the US healthcare system and the capacity to conduct a reasoned analysis of a policy issue.
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HADM 602 - Organizational Management
3 Credit Hours
A study of management theory, organizational management and behavior as related to leadership, organizational design, culture, processes, workforce strategy and change management with an emphasis on the application of theory and research to organizational management and behavior. This course provides an opportunity to explore conceptual frameworks addressing organizational behavior, development, leadership, strategy and management of change.
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HADM 605 - Health Law and Ethics
3 Credit Hours
This course examines legal, regulatory and ethical issues health professionals are likely to confront. In this course, we will examine the legal principles needed to analyze regulatory and liability issues. We will study selected principles and policies under-girding health the American system of health law, including common law principles of liability and federal/state legislation regulating health professionals and operations. We will also discuss the impact of state and federal law on the operation of various health-related organizations.
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HADM 606 - Health Economics
3 Credit Hours
This is an introductory health economics course designed to provide students with a basic understanding of concepts in economic theory and analysis applied to healthcare delivery in the US. Health economics offers a conceptual framework and analytic tools for assessing the inter-relationships among healthcare resources, providers, consumers and markets. In other words, we will study how scarce health-related resources are allocated along with various incentives and structural frameworks that can impact those allocations.
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HADM 607 - Effective Information Technology for Healthcare Organizations
3 Credit Hours
This course provides the key concepts related to information technology within healthcare organizations. The course explores how information technologies are used as a tool to enhance performance within healthcare organizations for positive health outcomes. Topic areas include various information technologies used in the healthcare sector; methods for assessing and ensuring information technology value; laws, regulations and standards to guide the practice; achieving effectiveness through information technology; and the latest developments including business and clinical intelligence and telemedicine.
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HADM 610 - Financing Healthcare
3 Credit Hours
This course covers financial management in healthcare organizations including, but not limited to, financial decision-making using accounting information, operation of business units, principles of economics and capital budgeting processes along with budgetary and financial controls. Financial performance will be analyzed along with revenue determination and profitability. General accounting foundations and terminology will be covered.
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HADM 611 - Operations Management and Performance Improvement
3 Credit Hours
To achieve performance improvements in the areas of cost, clinical quality, functional outcomes and service quality, healthcare managers must focus on the design, execution and management of operations. This course covers analytical techniques to support quantitative managerial decision-making in healthcare. Building on a “system-based” approach to the healthcare environment, analytical tools are examined to aid problem solving and decision-making in healthcare organizations.
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HADM 612 - Administrative Introduction
1 Credit Hours
The administrative introduction course provides students with no previous work experience in healthcare with a supervised experience in an approved organization. The introduction will expose the student to different aspects of working in a healthcare care environment, such as working with different professionals and gaining a deeper understanding of the complex nature of healthcare.
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HADM 700 - Leadership
3 Credit Hours
The emphasis of this course is on the practice of leadership. The course will equip the student with the basic managerial background, fundamentals and the theories which will be applicable at any level in management and in a leadership position. Students will be exposed to the interaction of leadership, change, communication and power as seen in the healthcare environment. This course will examine the traits of leadership, developing leadership skill, creating a vision and managing conflicts and obstacles in an organization.
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HADM 701 - Supply Chain Management
3 Credit Hours
This course focuses on the preparation of healthcare administrators for supply chain management. The concentrations for the course include healthcare value analysis, contract management, purchasing, warehouse management, equipment management, product standardization, just-in-time approaches and biomedical engineering.
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HADM 702 - Healthcare Marketing
3 Credit Hours
This course examines marketing principles, concepts and skills applied to healthcare organizations and healthcare networks. Students will examine marketing methodologies and principles for evaluating consumer decision making actions for healthcare services. The course will place emphasis on social media and electronic forms of marketing healthcare services. The course will culminate with the development of a strategic healthcare marketing plan.
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HADM 705 - Conflict Analysis and Negotiations
3 Credit Hours
This course will provide students with advanced knowledge and skills in the theory of conflict analysis and resolution, including but not necessarily limited to:
- Skill development and collaborative problem solving at the individual, group, and organizational level.
- Conceptual and practical skills in negotiation that are essential for managers.
Third-party conflict intervention, which can assume a number of forms such as fact-finding, conciliation, mediation and arbitration.
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HADM 706 - Healthcare Strategy
3 Credit Hours
This course is designed to help students learn about essential aspects of strategic planning and strategic management in the context of healthcare service organizations. Students will acquire an enhanced understanding of the complex US healthcare system, apply planning concepts to formulate mission and vision statements, and formulate goals and objectives as part of a strategic plan. The course content will also address aspects of organizational leadership, along with the importance of implementation and monitoring progress to achieve continuous quality improvement and to “close the loop” with strategic planning initiatives.
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HADM 715 - Administrative Residency
3 Credit Hours
The residency provides students with an in-depth supervised experience in an approved organization. The residency will require students to complete a project related to an actual healthcare administration issue that is a focus within the organization.
The purpose of the graduate Administrative Residency is to provide an opportunity for the student to apply, in a practice setting and under the direction of a Preceptor, the competencies, knowledge and skills they have acquired through their healthcare administration course work. It requires the student integrates and synthesize knowledge and skills through the application of health administration theories and principles to the development and implementation of a special project in a selected domain of professional health administration practice.
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MHA 500 - Introduction to Healthcare Analytics
3 Credit Hours
Cross-listed: DHSC 704 , MHDS 504
The course introduces basic concepts in healthcare analytics. Students will develop data analysis skills with an emphasis on statistical reasoning. The course is designed to teach students how to use data to make informed decisions. This process includes reviewing the data, exploring all the underlying assumptions, summarizing and analyzing the data and finally translating the results. Discussions and assignments will focus on honing data interpretation and the ability to strategically apply analysis results to improve health outcomes.
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MHA 501 - Programming Tools and Techniques in Data Management
3 Credit Hours
This course is designed to train students in basic and advanced statistical programming languages (such as SAS or R) together with techniques and tools necessary for data management and data mining. Students will develop skills in the data management process for analytics including data acquisition, cleansing and debugging. Students will be able to relate and aggregate these data in analytic databases, data marts and data warehouses, and will be able to explore different analytical decision tools through case studies and projects.
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MHA 502 - Research Methods
3 Credit Hours
Cross-listed: DHSC 706
This course introduces research methods in a healthcare setting. Students will be able to learn about development of research questionnaire and design, methodology, data collection and sampling techniques, sample size and power analysis, research ethics and validation and effective dissemination of research. Students will be able to explore and evaluate different types of research procedures and outcomes in the healthcare sector.
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MHA 503 - Leveraging Data for Evidence-Based Decision Making
3 Credit Hours
Cross-listed: DHSC 801 , MHDS 601
The utilization of data in decision-making is essential in healthcare delivery. Data can be used to evaluate the quality of care delivery, program effectiveness, health economics and more. This course provides an introduction to the use of data and how to transform analysis results into evidence driven decisions. Students will also learn how to apply and integrate these concepts into health-related scenarios and gain fundamental skills in data-driven decision-making for healthcare leaders.
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MHA 504 - Predictive Data Analytics
3 Credit Hours
This course focuses on statistical inference and hypothesis testing methods in predictive analytics. Students will learn the application of statistical methods for analyzing both continuous and discrete data for knowledge discovery. Analytic continuous and discrete data concepts and methods are developed with practical skills in exploratory data analysis. Descriptive statistics, goodness-of-fit tests, correlation measures, single and multiple linear regression, analysis of variance and covariance (ANOVA and ANCOVA), contingency tables, logistic regression, multinomial and multivariate models will be covered. Application of various statistical methods using case studies and real-world data will leverage statistical assessment and interpretation.
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MHA 505 - Healthcare Delivery Systems
3 Credit Hours
Cross-listed: DHSC 702 , MHDS 502
This course focuses on the identification and analysis of factors and interrelationships which influence the operation of health services organizations, with specific attention to local health departments, hospitals, multi-institutional systems, integrated health systems and strategic alliances. These organizations will be viewed and discussed comparatively with other types of health service agencies.
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MHA 506 - Data Mining and Machine Learning
3 Credit Hours
This course covers healthcare analytics using data mining and machine learning techniques. Students will be introduced to decision trees, nearest neighbor algorithm, Bayesian analysis, neural network, genetic algorithm and support vector machine methods. Case studies and real-world data will leverage students’ data mining and machine learning outcomes.
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MHA 508 - Management of Organizational Change
3 Credit Hours
Cross-listed: DHSC 701 , MHDS 501
A study of organizational management theory and organizational models in a variety of settings as related to culture, mission, performance and change management with an emphasis on the application of management theory and research. This course provides an opportunity to explore conceptual frameworks addressing organizational development, leadership, decision making and the stages of change management.
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MHA 509 - Leadership and Professionalism
3 Credit Hours
Cross-listed: MHDS 505
This course will expose learners to effective leadership approaches and skill sets. Topics will include fundamentals of leadership, leadership and professionalism self-assessment, leadership philosophy, professionalism, essential leadership and professional skills, modeling best leadership practices and behaviors, ethics in leadership, institutional and program accreditation, handling conflict and emerging issues. Learners will apply this learning to their professional life through a series of practical exercises.
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MHA 510 - Population Health and Preventive Care
3 Credit Hours
Cross-listed: DHSC 805 , MHDS 602
This course discusses the determinants of health, health behavior change, measuring health status and influences on health status including health disparities and socioeconomic status. This includes discussion on how healthcare organizations utilize this information to improve health status among populations. Additionally, students will be able to identify and understand population-based approaches aimed at health improvement.
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MHA 511 - Practicum Project
6 Credit Hours
The practicum is designed to demonstrate the student’s accumulated learning experience through an approved healthcare analytics project. The goal of the practicum is to provide students with the opportunity to apply academic theory and acquired technical skills to community-based healthcare research and service in a practice setting. The completed product should bring together the student’s technical competency, communication skills and research capabilities. The practicum project will be guided by the faculty.
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MHA 513 - Data Visualization
3 Credit Hours
Cross-listed: MPH 627
This course is intended to be a step-by-step introduction to the world of visual analytics and is designed for the beginner and intermediate users of data visualization. The course will help students to understand and apply important concepts and techniques in data visualization, moving from simple to complex situations and then combine them in interactive dashboards. Topics to be covered include data connection, different graphs and charts, quick table calculations, designing interactive dashboards, mapping, unions and joins.
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MHDS 500 - Strategic Communication
3 Credit Hours
Cross-listed: DHSC700
Communication skills have never been more important than in the 21st Century where professionals must balance verbal and written interactions. Strategic communication must align the message, the medium and the audience to help organizations achieve their goals. This course will explore those concepts and help students improve their communication skills, including topics such as professional writing, developing effective PowerPoint presentations, importance of active listening and evolving use of social media.
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MHDS 501 - Management of Organizational Change
3 Credit Hours
Cross-listed: DHSC 701 , MHA 508
This course is a study of organizational management theory and organizational models in a variety of settings as related to culture, mission, performance and change management with an emphasis on the application of management theory and research. This course provides an opportunity to explore conceptual frameworks addressing organizational development, leadership, decision making and the stages of change management.
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MHDS 502 - Healthcare Delivery Systems
3 Credit Hours
Cross-listed: MHA 505
This course focuses on the identification and analysis of factors and interrelationships which influence the operation of health services organizations with specific attention to local health departments, hospitals, multi-institutional systems, integrated health systems and strategic alliances. These organizations will be viewed and discussed comparatively with other types of health service agencies.
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MHDS 503 - Effective Information Technology for Healthcare Organizations
3 Credit Hours
Cross-listed: DHSC 705 , MPH 626
This course provides the key concepts related to information technology within healthcare organizations. Students will learn how information technology is used as a tool to improve performance within healthcare organizations for positive health outcomes. Topic areas include the electronic health record, HIPAA and security requirements, ethics and legal rules for retrieving and managing clinical data, computerized provider order entry and the use of administrative and registry data for standard reports, scorecards and dashboards.
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MHDS 504 - Introduction to Healthcare Analytics
3 Credit Hours
Cross-listed: DHSC 704 , MHS500
The course introduces basic concepts in healthcare analytics. Students will develop data analysis skills with an emphasis on statistical reasoning. The course is designed to teach students how to use data to make informed decisions. This process includes reviewing the data, exploring all the underlying assumptions, summarizing and analyzing the data and finally translating the results. Discussions and assignments will focus on honing data interpretation and the ability to strategically apply analysis results to improve health outcomes.
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MHDS 505 - Leadership and Professionalism
3 Credit Hours
Cross-listed: MHA 509 , MPH 690
This course exposes learners to effective leadership approaches and skill sets. Topics will include fundamentals of leadership, leadership and professionalism self-assessment, leadership philosophy, professionalism, essential leadership and professionalism skills, modeling best leadership practices and behaviors, ethics in leadership, institutional and program accreditation, handling conflict and emerging issues. Learners will apply this learning to their professional life through a series of practical exercises.
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MHDS 600 - Essentials of Financial Management
3 Credit Hours
Cross-listed: DHSC 800
This course covers financial management in healthcare organizations including, but not limited to, financial decision-making using accounting information, operation of business units, principles of economics and capital budgeting processes along with budgetary and financial controls. Financial performance will be analyzed along with revenue determination and profitability. General accounting foundations and terminology will be covered. Students will analyze “real-life” cases to apply cost allocation, marginal cost pricing, breakeven, budget variance, capital investment and financial analysis skills. Students will also identify and explore a healthcare finance-related topic and prepare a research paper.
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MHDS 601 - Leveraging Data for Evidence-Based Decision Making
3 Credit Hours
Cross-listed: MHA 503 , MPH 631
The utilization of data in decision-making is essential in healthcare delivery. Data can be used to evaluate the quality of care delivery, program effectiveness, health economics and more. This course provides an introduction to the use of data and how to transform analysis results into evidence driven decisions. Students will also learn how to apply and integrate these concepts into health-related scenarios and gain fundamental skills in data-driven decision-making for healthcare leaders.
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MHDS 602 - Population Health and Preventive Care
3 Credit Hours
Cross-listed: DHSC 805 , MHA 510
This course discusses the determinants of health, health behavior change, measuring health status and influences on health status including health disparities and socioeconomic status. This includes discussion on how healthcare organizations utilize this information to improve health status among populations. Additionally, students will be able to identify and understand population-based approaches aimed at health improvement.
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MHDS 603 - Leading Innovation
3 Credit Hours
Cross-listed: DHSC 903
Increasingly complex environments require a commitment to develop innovative solutions to address changing systems and evolving needs. This course will examine concepts and case studies of innovation in a variety of organizations, along with the tools and strategies necessary to promote effective change through discovery and networking. Students will apply information learned throughout the program to develop an innovative proposal for their place of employment or for an organization they aspire to work for.
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HTL 500 - Intro to Anatomical and Histological Laboratories
2 Credit Hours
This course serves as an introduction to laboratory environments commonly seen in the practice of pathology and histotechnology and fulfills training requirements necessary for continued study in the Histotechnology Program. Training will address blood-borne pathogen safety, laboratory safety, and handling of biohazardous materials and waste. Proper use of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) and laboratory regulations of the College of American Pathologists (CAP), Occupational Safety and Health Administration, and the Joint Commission will also be addressed. Training in human subjects’ research regulations and requirements (via CITI training) will also be a component of this course. As a requirement for completion of this course, students will attain a 2-year certification (by the American Heart Association) in Basic Life Support for Healthcare Providers (BLS-P). This course will also serve as an introduction to the functional, operational, and administrative aspects of laboratories including the histotechnology laboratory and surgical pathology suite.
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HTL 501 - Medical Ethics (online component)
2 Credit Hours
This is a hybrid course having both an online component and face-to-face classroom discussions. The course was developed by Edx Inc., in collaboration with the faculty of Georgetown University, Kennedy Institute of Ethics. The course content and videos are equivalent to the (PHLX101-03X) course offered at Georgetown University. The in-house utilization of the course has supplemental features that include periodic interactive face-to-face classroom discussions on selected topics and themes. These discussions, conducted either as Blackboard postings or as classroom exchanges, personalize the course content. The course presents five major themes of bioethics and each of the five major themes is highlighted by a classroom discussion on the topic. Each week, a new unit will become available to the students either online or via Blackboard. Presented in this course are the following themes: Autonomy, bioethics and the human body, bioethics as it pertains to the beginning and end of life, and bioethics that have a global impact.
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HTL 504 - Anatomical Foundations
5 Credit Hours
The course is divided into 4 modular units of learning which include: back & upper extremities; head and neck; thorax & abdomen; pelvis & lower extremity. This course affords the student a coherent, sequential approach to the study of human anatomy at the gross level with applied clinical relationships. The general objective is for the experience of a visual concept of the human body to relate this to future professional settings. This experience is extrapolated by way of a virtual lab providing the student with the anatomical basis for understanding and appreciating the variations and complexities of the human body. Students should be able to demonstrate to each other all the different normal structures detailed in the student learning objectives for specific modules. Students should be able to integrate materials in a particular module to talk about clinical/surgical functions. These objectives are evaluated by clinical scenario types of questions on exams.
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HTL 510 - Pathphysiology
4 Credit Hours
This course is a didactic presentation of human pathophysiology designed for Health Professions students. A clear understanding of the etiology, pathogenesis, pathophysiology and morphologic changes of disease serves as an essential basis for the understanding and competent practice in all areas of medicine. Students in this course will: Develop a background and vocabulary in pathophysiology; acquire an understanding of general physiologic/pathophysiologic processes such as inflammation, repair, neoplasia and senescence; survey pathophysiologic processes and morphologic changes which manifest in organ systems and establish a basis for the understanding of disease; exercise an approach to clinical problems which evaluates symptoms, signs and findings with a knowledge of pathophysiology to formulate a diagnosis with due consideration of differential diagnoses.
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