Certificate in Health Professions Teaching

Through its School of Health-Related Professions, UMDNJ offers a 12-credit Web-based Post-Graduate Certificate in Health Professions Teaching. The Certificate is designed to enhance the proficiency of health sciences faculty in teaching and curriculum design, while providing elective options to meet individual needs related to one's specific instructional role.

Outcome Goals

Faculty completing the Certificate in Health Professions Teaching will be able to:

1. Apply relevant sources of purpose, content determination strategies and applicable screens to plan and develop an instructional activity for a defined audience, to include:
   1. Outcome standards, goals & objectives
   2. Methods/modes of instruction
   3. Resources and instructional materials
   4. Procedures (organization, sequence, integration, etc)
   5. Evaluation strategies
   6. Maintenance plan
2. Select, develop and utilize appropriate student and curricular evaluation tools to assess:
   1. Individual student ability, competence and/or performance in the cognitive, psychomotor and affective domains
   2. The quality and appropriateness of instructional processes (formative assessment)
   3. The results or outcomes of instructional activities (summative assessment)
3. Demonstrate basic proficiency as a teacher/facilitator in one or more of the following settings/roles:
   1. Traditional classroom teaching Multimedia-augmented classroom teaching
   2. Small group teaching/facilitation
   3. Laboratory demonstration/investigation
   4. Clinic/bedside teaching/preceptoring
   5. Community- or office-based teaching/preceptoring
   6. Teaching with technology
   7. Web-based/asynchronous electronic delivery
   8. Live/broadcast or teleconferenced instruction
   9. Computer-based instruction (e.g., CD-ROM)
4. Implement in their teaching roles educational methods based on the best available evidence
5. Apply current legal and ethical standards to the teaching role

Curriculum

The Certificate curriculum requires completion of four 3-credit courses, all delivered over the Internet using the University's WebCT platform. Course requirements are summarized below:

Individuals can apply for and complete the entire 12-credit certificate or simply take one or more courses according to need.

For More Information

If you have additional questions, would like more information, or would like to volunteer to get involved in the design, development or delivery of these courses, please contact the Project Director:

Craig L. Scanlan, EdD, RRT, FAARC
School of Health Related Professions
65 Bergen Street Newark, NJ 07107
Program Office: 973-972-8576
Program Fax: 973-972-7854
Direct Voice & Messaging: 732-670-4958
E-mail: scanlan@umdnj.edu