CertificateHealth Professions Education

Health class with professor and student

Prepare to teach in the classroom, laboratory, and clinical settings with an online curriculum designed for working professionals.

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The Certificate in Health Professions Education is a 12-credit hour (post master’s degree) program delivered in a fully online format that prepares you for successful teaching in a variety of healthcare-related fields.

Why earn your Certificate in Health Professions Education?

The certificate prepares students from diverse healthcare backgrounds for hospital-based education as well as clinical precepting. All healthcare related providers are welcome including, but not limited to nursing, physical therapy, respiratory therapy, occupational therapy, athletic training, speech-language pathology, medical laboratory sciences, imaging sciences, radiation therapy, child life specialists, dental hygiene, and health care administration.

The program includes student development theories, as well as pedagogical strategies for teaching in the classroom, online, clinical, and laboratory settings. In addition, the program prepares graduates to evaluate student learning. Three one-credit hour seminar courses complete the program required curriculum.

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Student Learning Outcomes

Across broadly defined and culturally contemporary concepts related to issues of inclusion, diversity, abilities and identity, students will be able to:

  1. Synthesize concepts, models, and theories through the appropriate application of theoretical and empirical knowledge.
  2. Design evidence-based pedagogical strategies and methodologies with appropriate scope, sequence, and focus for learners.
  3. Demonstrate multiple approaches to assessing student learning.
  4. Evaluate the effectiveness of programs, curricula, and instructional events.

Faculty Profiles

Here is a quick snapshot of a few of our faculty members.

Christy Kane

Christy Kane, PhD, RRT, RRT-NPS, RRT-ACCS, AE-C, FAARC
Dr. Kane serves as the chair of the Ph.D. in Health Professions Education program as well as the chair of the graduate and undergraduate Respiratory Therapy Programs. In addition, Dr. Christy Kane currently serves as the Associate Dean of the Donna and Allen Lansing School of Nursing and Clinical Sciences. Since coming to Bellarmine in 2001, her primary teaching responsibilities have included adult critical care, pharmacology, and capstone. Her research focuses on exercise’s influence on cognitive function, smoking cessation, and topics in adult critical care. Her work has been published in the Mayo Clinic Proceedings, Dimensions of Critical Care Nursing, Physiology and Behavior, American Journal of Health Promotion, as well as Preventive Medicine. In addition to the Registered Respiratory Therapist credential, she has also earned credentials as a Neonatal Pediatric Specialist, Asthma Educator Certification, and Adult Critical Care Specialist. She is actively involved in her professional organizations and is an AARC Fellow. In 2023, Dr. Kane was inducted as a Distinguished Scholar Fellow to the Respiratory Care Academy of the National Academies of Practice.

Barbara Jackson, PhD, RN

Barbara Jackson, Ph.D., RN
Dr. Jackson is an Associate Professor of the Lansing School of Nursing and Clinical Sciences. She was elected to the Editorial Board with the Kentucky Nurse’s Association. Dr. Jackson earned her BSN at Indiana University Southeast and her Ph.D. in Nursing from the University of Louisville. Her research interests include a focus on vulnerable populations, including homelessness, poverty, and incarceration. She has worked with mothers who live in urban settings, mothers in prison, as well as rural and urban pediatric populations. She works with a hospital research council on topics related to patient education and staff development. Her primary teaching responsibilities have included health policy, evidence-based practice, scholarship and pedagogy in HPE and Qualitative Research.

Admission Requirements

Applicants must hold a master’s degree or professional doctorate with a minimum grade point average of 3.2 in all graduate coursework completed at the time of application. For a comprehensive look at the admission procedure, please visit our Admission Requirements page.

Contact

For more information, call 502.272.7100 or email your questions to admissions@bellarmine.edu.